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"What It Looks Like" was written in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, June 2018. As I ate breakfast each morning, I listened to Cuban news report on the unfolding family separation crisis that the United States government was systematizing as part of its Zero Tolerance policy.
America does not end at the US-Mexico border. It never has and it never will. The history of migration in North and South America began thousands of years before White European settler-colonialists began colonizing, enslaving and committing one of the largest genocides in human history. The United States government and the New World capitalist system still places profits over people. It has systematically displaced people all over the globe, particularly by supporting authoritarian coups d'états over the past century in Latin America. (see: Fulgencio Batista, Augusto Pinochet, the Contras)
We all do better when we all do better, up and down the Americas, regardless of arbitrary borders.
All proceeds from "What It Looks Like" will be directed to Alianzas Americas, an organization that works to protect the dignity and promote the well-being of all people across the Americas.
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