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As Trump incites Black people against immigrants, Bob Avakian poses a sharp challenge to those Black people who are hating on immigrants: “Do you really want to be like the rabid white racists?”
Revcoms on the South Side of Chicago call on people to stop getting played by “divide and conquer” and unite for revolution against the whole system. Major controversy ensues…
In his social media dispatch #73, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian said:
“One of the most maddening and heartbreaking things these days is to hear Black people, who have suffered so terribly under this system, hating on immigrants—talking about how immigrants are supposedly taking jobs and resources that should go to Black people and ruining neighborhoods where Black people have lived for generations.”
He goes on:
“When I hear this, I can’t help thinking about what happened when the mass migration of Black people from the South took place beginning after World War 1, a century ago. Coming into cities in the North, Black people were repeatedly and viciously attacked by racist white mobs, claiming that Black people were taking jobs from white people, that Black people were ruining the cities, and just refusing to ‘stay in their place.’”
Then he poses this question to any Black people today who are caught up in this hating on immigrants:
“Do you really want to be like the rabid white racists? Or, do you want to put an end to this madness—that you, and the immigrants, are being put through?”
Everywhere the Revcoms have taken this message on the South Side of Chicago and on social media it has stirred up controversy and debate. Watch this video of the Revcoms in South Shore.
Rafael Kadaris, with the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity, said:
“If you’re hating on immigrants, you’re getting played. Immigrants are not the reason Black people are suffering in Chicago. It’s this system that has exploited and terrorized Black people for hundreds of years. And it’s this same system that has destroyed the homelands of people all over the world, from Haiti to Venezuela to Gaza. We don’t have an immigration problem, we have a capitalism-imperialism problem.”
Carl Dix, longtime revolutionary communist and follower of Bob Avakian, said:
“Revolution is more possible now than it’s been in generations. Instead of fighting for crumbs and competing over who gets to scrape the bottom of the barrel, Black people need to come together with immigrants and rise up to overthrow this whole system.
Leo Pargo, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and now works with the Revcom Corps said:
“Someone said I am a ‘traitor’ to Black people because I’m calling out this anti-immigrant nonsense. No, I am a revolutionary and an emancipator of humanity. And you should be too! These MAGA fascists want to get rid of all of us. Quit falling for this system’s divide and conquer scheme and join the revolution!
About Rafael Kadaris, Carl Dix, and Leo Pargo.
Leo Pargo is a leader of the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity in Chicago. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and got involved with the Revcoms after the police murder of Laquan McDonald and Harith Augustus. He is now a revolutionary internationalist, fighting to end all forms of oppression all over the world, and was recently arrested while protesting to stop the U.S. backed genocide in Gaza.
Rafael Kadaris is a revolutionary communist, a correspondent with The RNL Show, and a follower of the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian. He has been fighting against U.S. imperialist wars, murder by police, and attacks on immigrants since the early 2000s. He is known for verbal sparring, taking on MAGA fascists, Democrats, wokesters, and phony “socialists.” Last year he and other revcoms made international news burning the U.S. flag at fascist country singer Jason Aldean’s concert in Chicago.
Carl Dix is a representative of the RevCom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity and a follower of the revolutionary leader, Bob Avakian. In 1970, he was one of the Fort Lewis 6, 6 US soldiers who refused orders to go to Vietnam. In 2011, he co-founded, with Dr. Cornel West, the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and initiated a civil disobedience campaign to Stop “Stop and Frisk.”
