Latinos are always being blamed for the bad in this country, It’s about time someone wrote about this topic and how it’s been known but not exposed, that White supremacist are really the major smugglers and users of fentanyl and meth in America. Click link at bottom of page to read Arturo Dominguez opinion post on Latino Rebels.
American citizens, namely white people, are the key drivers behind not just the opioid crisis but also the fentanyl one. Statistics show that year after year this demographic is responsible for over 90 percent of all fentanyl drug busts at the U.S.-Mexico border.
White people are also the largest consumer of these products, which, combined, fuel the multiple crises we see in the U.S. today. The kicker? Their suppliers are often white supremacist gangs.
The issue of drugs on American streets is only discussed as an “inner-city” problem that warrants criminalizing Black people and blaming “Mexicans” for smuggling drugs into the country in the same breath.
The truth is it’s not just the demand from white America that drives the illicit drug market, it’s that they’re also the smugglers. And because the United States is built on blaming non-white people for white people’s problems, this aspect of the drug trade is widely ignored. It’s a problem that continues to grow exponentially.
Not An Immigration Issue:
As the political right continues to blame immigrants for what ails the United States, lying about the U.S.-Mexico border being “open,” it’s not asylum-seekers causing the harm.
White supremacy is such that it can never point the finger at itself no matter how much harm it does to white communities. This leaves white supremacists to use immigration as a target for propaganda and assign fault to non-white communities through the art of invention.
Conservative Latinos who drive these assumptions —which manifest themselves as hateful acts that too often result in mass murder— make this an even bigger issue. They help disguise the root of the problem with animus, while supporting and bolstering white supremacist beliefs.
This demographic has taken a page from the playbook of hate and they are all over social media and AM radio spreading such lies in Spanish—an issue of contention in itself.
Click to read out Arturo Dominguez post on Latino Rebels.
