On the way home, between much-needed naps, I talk to Benjamin Ndugga-Kabuye. He grew up in San Diego after moving to the United States from Uganda as a kid. He works for a Brooklyn-based group called the @Black Alliance for Just Immigration and he explains why black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean and beyond must play a role in the fight against state-sanctioned violence. “We can talk about black immigrants who have also faced that same brutality. I mean, famously, people discuss Amadou Diallo,” he says. “When we think about the violence leveled against black bodies, as we think about what motivates it, we’ve got to bring all black people to this discussion.” Ndugga-Kabuye also tells me that Black Life Matters represents something new. “Even though we’re gathering for Mike Brown, we’ve got to think about what that means for other black folk—black women, black queerfolk, black transfolk. We can’t just think [theoretically]. We put together the language. Now we’ve got to practice a politic that encompasses all black people.” @colorlines
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