priforce

We, the undersigned residents of Emeryville, stand together with Councilmember Kalimah Priforce who is on Day 6 of a hunger strike to gather 1,000 signatures —Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and others—united by a common goal: to uphold and strengthen ethical governance in our city.

I'm the hacktivist from Brooklyn.

And like a hacker, when we encounter systems that discriminate, subjugate, or operates in ways that unfairly disadvantages one (user) over another - we do something about it.

Americans didn't enslave Indians for centuries, have a civil war that created deep political fractions till this day, made it illegal for Blacks to read or drink from Whites-only water fountains, and then launch a series of legal structures that prevented Blacks from being treated as human beings.

In actuality, a landmark Supreme Court case was of an Indian man who wanted to own US property but couldn't and his defense was that he was related to Aryans and therefore could be considered White.

Black isn't so much a color, it's both an individual and collective experience, and the experiences of Blacks in America in relations to Whites is what makes race-relations and social, political, economic progress unique to Blacks as opposed to other ethnic groups who have faced discrimination and even oppression but not to the degree of Blacks.

The closest comparison I would make to Blacks and Indians is of the higher Indian castes and the Dalits (Untouchables). So, yes, Black and Indians can be distinguished from one another and at the same time learn from one another.