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African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.
~ Opal Tometi
Better
Better Life
Black
Determination
Immigrants
Life
Resilience
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Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.
~ Opal Tometi
Across
Actually
Globe
Happening
Only
Racism
States
United
United States
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Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities.
~ Opal Tometi
Beliefs
Black
Communities
Level
Oppress
Policies
Practices
Racism
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As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
~ Opal Tometi
Action
Activity
Amount
Community
Degree
Fascination
Get
History
Holds
However
Intellectual
Many
Material
Often
Organizer
Our
Purely
Tendency
Understand
Us
Which
Who
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As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
~ Opal Tometi
Advocate
Country
Course
Everyone
Immigrant
Justice
Legal
Make
Status
Trying
Want
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As we look ahead to our very diverse future, BAJI plans to continue to be at the forefront, uniting black communities to attain racial, social, and economic justice for all.
~ Opal Tometi
Ahead
Attain
Black
Communities
Continue
Diverse
Economic
Economic Justice
Forefront
Future
Justice
Look
Our
Plans
Racial
Social
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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
Being
Black
Heard
Immigrant
Immigrants
Like
Lot
People
Questions
Rights
Show
Space
Talk
Up
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Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
~ Opal Tometi
African
African Americans
American
Black
Fight
Immigrants
Just
Just As Much
Lives
Make
Matter
Much
Refugees
Stake
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Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
~ Opal Tometi
Been
Black
Fit
Has-Been
However
Lives
Matter
People
See
Taking
Using
Viral
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Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
~ Opal Tometi
Affirmation
Also
Black
Demand
Designed
Justice
Know
Lives
Love
Matter
Note
Our
Our People
People
Really
System
Us
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Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.
~ Opal Tometi
About
Black
Deserving
Express
Fully
Humanity
Lives
Matter
Our
People
Room
Space
Truly
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Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.
~ Opal Tometi
Ability
All People
Civility
Dignity
Gender
Inherent
Matter
People
Person
Race
Recognition
Religion
Sexuality
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Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.
~ Opal Tometi
Bad
Claims
Cops
Despite
Everyone
Failing
Good
Good And Bad
Including
Know
Police
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Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more.
~ Opal Tometi
Arrest
Bench
Broken
Cases
Due
Feet
Following
Go
Interactions
Lead
More
Park
Policing
Putting
Sleeping
Some
Subway
Tickets
Unpaid
Up
Violence
Windows
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Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently fixed with each passing decade.
~ Opal Tometi
Acceptable
Black
Conform
Decade
Diminished
Each
Ending
Far
Fixed
Itself
Leaving
Life
More
Passing
Permanently
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For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.
~ Opal Tometi
Being
Boast
Does
Free
Ideal
Land
Live
Nation
Up
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Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.
~ Opal Tometi
Always
Been
Black
Communities
Fortunately
Harry
Immigrant
Know
Leaders
Leadership
Legacy
Liberation
Like
Malcolm
Malcolm X
Movements
Our
Present
Shirley
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From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going.
~ Opal Tometi
About
Acts
Alone
Am
Black
Brother
Courage
Deserve
Even
Folks
Going
I Am
I Think
Immigrant
Keep
Keep Going
Me
More
People
Queer
Reminds
Think
Those
Various
Who
Women
Youngest
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Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.
~ Opal Tometi
Committed
Get
Got
How
Immigrant
Involved
Movement
Neighborhood
Really
Rights
Rights Movement
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I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for black immigrants and African Americans. Being the daughter of Nigerian immigrants really drove me to do this type of work.
~ Opal Tometi
African
African Americans
Alliance
Am
American
Being
Black
Country
Daughter
Director
Drove
Executive
I Am
Immigrant
Immigrants
Immigration
Just
Me
National
Nigerian
Only
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Really
Rights
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