If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center, and members of our community would take turns visiting… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Without networks like the Black Immigration Network, organizations like Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees would not get the support and resources and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?' — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe. — Opal Tometi Copy Share
I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing. — Opal Tometi Copy Share
I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system. — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Some of us have held the hands of friends or brothers as they struggled with military and police academy recruiters, and though many of… — Opal Tometi Copy Share
Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue. — Opal Tometi Copy Share
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives. — Opal Tometi Copy Share
