Building Coalitions

Conciatore and Rodriguez discuss that it is a necessity for people of color to form an alliance. If this is formed, the climb upwards will be faster. The article opens with a Black labor leader commenting how Latinos are "pimping off the civil rights struggle...they can't benefit from our fight". I think Latinos have went through their own, seperate struggles to fight for where they are going. They enter this country and take low-wage, undesirable jobs. There is the Chicanos and their land getting annexed after the Mexican War. There are the exiles and refugees from Cuba.

We do not learn about their history and struggle as much as we learn about the slaves, and they deserve a strive for equality just as much as blacks, and I do agree that forming together with other people, not necessarily of their same ethnicity, will accelerate the strive. Brady also discusses how it must be a combined effort to help discard pervasive racism.
Just like whites and groups consisting of people of color that need to work together and be equal, different people of color need to bond together as well, such as Hispanics and Blacks as mentioned in the articles.

I like what Lorde mentions about how "it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes". Firsthand experiences are always the most influential in my opinion. After reading the articles, I think that building coalitions and overcoming differences will have a huge effect and help move society forward.