Jimmy Patiño

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@eunuchpwr @ajamubaraka Nice demonstration of not knowing what white supremacy is. It’s not a rigid fact of different skin colors but a set of systemic conditions in which actions take place… dude was “rude” in a way that was racialized and gendered—how capitalism establishes power daily

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@DrBenVincent @ajamubaraka How you say you didn’t watch the interview without saying you didn’t watch the interview 🙄

[New Afrikan❤️🖤💚 @Liberation_Blk]

An AfroCuban comrade sent me this latest attack on 🇨🇺 by Diaspora Dash where she calls Cuba a “White antiBlack state” and I need to respond fully bc she doesn’t allow comments and the stakes are too damn high to let this imperialist propaganda go unchecked:

As usual, Dash collapses internal Black critique in Cuba into a regime change narrative. That distortion matters bc U.S. policy toward Cuba has long sought to generate hardship and internal disaffection to weaken and ultimately overthrow the Cuban govt.

She opens w/a 1961 piece by Juan René Betancourt as if it’s some neutral sociological exposé. He was a critic of revolutionary centralization. The Communist Party of Cuba itself drew heavily from AfroCuban working class sectors and some of the “independent” Black organizations Betancourt defends were tied to Batista-era patronage networks. His piece is squarely situated within an anticommunist dissident political critique of the revolution, not outside that context

Scholarly studies of race politics in revolutionary Cuba also note that early Black anticommunist critiques were often instrumentalized by Cold War geopolitics + exile opposition.

And using AfroCubaWeb to build a flat indictment is especially sloppy, bc they publish anti-embargo material, and have long posted on the harms of U.S. policy toward Cuba.

On the 2013 piece by Roberto Zurbano: his 2013 argument was not “Cuba is a white suprematist state.” It was that the Revolution made real material gains ag formal racial exclusion, but post Soviet realities, tourism-era stratifications, remittances, and market reforms reproduce disparate racial outcomes.

Zurbano himself objected to the NYT headline and that many Black Cubans make similar critiques do so within, *not against* the socialist project.

She continues to then use Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s San Isidro mvmnt that received direct funding from NED to decry “anti Black repression” in Cuba bc her ultimate stance is clear: Cuba is anti Black, therefore anti-imperialist solidarity is hollow, therefore pressure to topple the Cuban state is justified.😒

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@EricLDaugh White folks don’t have an “aunty” or tía like this? I call elders who are my parents first cousins uncle and aunt all the time like so many … sometimes close friends of the family too… I’m uncle to my best homies’ kids … yall reaching as usual … 🤦🏽‍♂️

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@TSDmemes Dudes do this shit too

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

Check out this essay I wrote using research from my book #RazaSiMigraNo to think about how Chicano Movement history can shed light on the present attack on migrants and struggles to #AbolishICE.

https://t.co/lGJHHUS1b5

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

St Paul, MN - On Sunday, March 30, about 100 people rallied on a snowy day to commemorate César Chávez Day. Speakers called for immigra... https://t.co/bJXA6Wqqm2

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@DawgSlim50 @tify330 She lost because her and the Dems support genocide and chose to say the economy was fine when working class folks struggle day to day.

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@youLOVEtani Sign up sheet for future step dad applicants? 🐇

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@UrOrientalist 😂

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@freedomrideblog I don’t give a f$ck what Biden “wanted” to do. He didn’t fight for a minimum wage, and it took pressure from working people in unions to get him to the little he did. I don’t believe he wanted to either, Bernie trippin.

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@Kaimandante @BambuDePistola and @ImmortalTech keep it real

[Erica G. for Class President @EG10029]

Rest in power José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, who evolved the #YoungLords into a militant political force in #Chicago. The Young Lords, #BlackPanthers and Young Patriots were allies in the first Rainbow Coalition.
https://t.co/etqJXJMwAp

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

“I tweeted Free Palestine. Less than 10 minutes later, I got a call from the NBA commissioner, agents, people in my foundation, and even folks from Texas, telling me to take it down”

NBA star Dwight Howard.

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

I spent a lot of time thinking about #JimmyCarter in my book #RazaSiMigraNo. Carter created a facade of human rights in immigration policy but capitulated to underlying exploitative interests, militarized the border and proposed a wall activists called the Carter curtain.

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

One such narrative is that modern Israeli Jews are the unbroken lineage of first century Palestinian Jews, the rightful owners of the land…as a Palestinian Christian, I am confronted with a profound sense of erasure within this discourse, a sentiment echoed by…my community.

[Sojourners @Sojourners]

Some Christians bristle at the assertion that Jesus is Palestinian. Why? https://t.co/pyhS8mb95z

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

“The worse reality becomes, the less a beleaguered population wants to hear about it…and the more it distracts itself with squalid pseudo-events of celebrity breakdowns, gossip, and trivia. These are debauched revels of a dying civilization.”

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

https://t.co/TQB0zDWg4o

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@bugimane @nikkithagod There’s a history of solidarity you’re either ignorant of or seek to erase. I get non-Black folks need to express solidarity through examining anti-Blackness. But, all groups in a colonial society internalize white supremacist notions of other groups. As well as their own group.

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@bugimane @nikkithagod Cool debate. Black Puerto Ricans certainly were enslaved. All are colonized by the US. Mexicans were lynched in mass. Certainly there are different experiences of colonialism that need specific attention, no one is debating that. What is reactionary is to foreclose on solidarity.

[Jimmy Patiño @ProfeJimmyP]

@bugimane @nikkithagod “We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity.” -Fred Hampton