Africa Is a Country

Immigrant, noun.

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Immigrant, noun.

By
Imran Garda

Google defines an immigrant as "a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country." We have our own definition.

Dulce Pinzon.

Threatening darker-skinned person from darker-skinned country, escaping poverty and persecution due to policies of lighter-skinned powers who finds residence in lighter-skinned country. Accused of taking job of native lighter-skinned person, who was once an immigrant, too–but did not take job of then native darker-skinned person. Preferred policy was to take entire country, and life of native too – thereby becoming the new native.

Photo Credits: Dulce Pinzon. This is reposted from Garda’s mainstreamisms tumblr.

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