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“Today, across the United States, we need ideas of identity and struggle that begin with our shared experiences in the places where immigrants and “people of color“ and the “unhoused“ and “working people“ and the hungry and the striving of all “races“ meet and mix and form communities together.“

“Blaxican is a way of saying: “we’ve lived something here together, in this ghetto, in the barrio. And here we became a people.“

“We live in a country where “multiracial“ people feel they must explain themselves and their place in the race schemes of this country. But really, no explanation is necessary. The United States is a “mulatto“ country, and a “mestizo“ country, and to be Blaxican is to live the very common and ordinary mixing of distinct “peoples“ thrown together by migration and inequality.“

“Mass consumerism is an empty, soulless utopia of more, more, and more of everything, supplied by a global stream of sacrifice and sweat. But a life centered on consumption for its own sake is unrewarding and unviable. Both in a purely mathematical sense, and in the ecological sense, the planet and our brown, laboring bodies cannot sustain the way of life that racism has helped bring into being.”