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You have described yourself as an anchor baby. That's what they call, that's what they call me

growing up. Can you break that term down for people who don't know it? Why you have embraced

the dichotomy of it and why it can be an offensive term?

Well, it's a derogatory term for people who had children who were undocumented,

had children in America to try to get citizenship and so they were called a kids' anchor babies.

The thing about immigration is, so they find so many ways to divide us. When you think about

immigration, they gave it a brown face, primarily a central American face. My father's Dominican

was undocumented and so they had me in Boston and he still got deported. I just think it's important

for us to have a conversation about immigration because when we talk about Eurasia of Blackness,

it exists in that too. While we were talking about immigration and all horrible things that were

happening to immigrants on the border, there were Haitians and Africans who were being held in

Mexico and in other places. I just think it's important that we don't erase the blackness of

people regardless of where they are because they belong to the tribe and they belong to us.

Yes, indeed. You and I were talking in the back about this new wave of nativist anti, not anti-immigrant

per se, but anti-black immigrant things that are happening in black communities in America.

It's really terrible. You know, it is and I understand the pain of all Black people because

it, wherever you are and you are of melanin, you are being mistreated. I'm sure.

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