It's heartwarming to see folks particularly immigrants and/or Muslims in the United States who usually are on the I don't-talk-politics-ever side of things make supportive statements or share content in relation to the uprising for social justice and equity for Black people. For the first time many immigrant dominant mosques and immigrant oriented organizations are making statements about the elephant in the room they've been quiet about, and let me also tell you, complicit in.
I used to get called out constantly for trying to point out problematic attitudes, behaviors, statements in the communities I belong to by way of racial and national origin and religious practice (Arab, Egyptian, African, immigrant, and Muslim).
I also try to understand that Institutionalized racism and the history of racial inequity in the United States are not something that people who're not from here 'just get' or learn about in schools in our countries and you could live here for years and still don't get it if you don't get the right exposure, and if you don't talk to Black people and learn from them.
That being said, it's very crucial right now more than ever during this historical moment that a candid conversation about anti-Blackness within those communities takes place, that people realize that by being a minority or a member of a marginalized group in the United States isn't an excuse for ignoring or perpetuating oppression and that it's better for everyone to come together and form alliances than be divided.
