Reply #234: Waving the American flag after 9/11 was a solidarity [View All]

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with the U.S.

But waving a Mexican flag outside of Mexico is a solidarity with whom? The poor in Mexico?

Or do you think that the only poor in this country are Mexicans, or even only Hispanics?

There are many poor white people and many poor Black people, and Native Americans. Since when do Mexicans have a monopoly on poverty?

And in contrast to Mexicans (and Guatemalans, and Filipinos) who can wave the flag of their country of origin, whose flag should African-Americans wave when they protest poverty and discrimination?

And I think that this is the saddest consequence: we have been concentrating so much on the plight of Mexicans, that we've neglected the African Americans to whom our priority should be first, since their ancestors did not come here of their free will.