EXAMPLES OF BLACK BROWN UNITY FOR THOSE WHO THINK ONE EXAMPLE EXIST.
Examples of unity
Historical
The Seminole Wars (1816-1842)
Throughout the colonial period, but particularly during the American Revolution and the War of 1812, black slaves took advantage of the societal disruptions to escape. Many sought and obtained haven with the Seminole Indians in Florida. England and later Spain, which claimed portions of the area, refused to return the escapees to their irate owners. The blacks settled with the Seminoles, intermarried, and established themselves as farmers, counselors, and tribal war leaders.
During the War of 1812, a small British force rebuilt an old Spanish fort in Florida, approximately sixty miles from the border with the United States. The Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Nichols, recruited Indians and runaway blacks to staff the fort and soon raids were being conducted into Georgia. Their base became known as the "Negro Fort" and was a major irritant to Georgia slaveowners. In 1816, the fort was attacked and destroyed by American troops under Colonel Edmund Gaines. Thus the First Seminole War began as an attempt to recapture runaway slaves. After the Battle of New Orleans, General Andrew Jackson led a second expedition into Florida to recapture runaway slaves. He destroyed Indian villages, scattering their inhabitants and eventually forcing the Spanish to cede their Florida territory to the United States in 1819.
The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was fought in order to remove the Seminole from Florida because they were in the way of white settlement. Blacks constituted from one-quarter to one-third of the warrior strength that resisted this removal policy. After seven years of war, 2,000 U.S. soldier deaths, and $4060 million in government expenditures, the Seminoles and a few blacks were allowed to emigrate to Indian Territory. Some blacks escaped to Mexico, others were returned to former white owners.
The black presence among the seminole is believed to be a principal reason that the removal of the Seminoles was sought, as they were a magnet to plantation slaves in georgia and elsewhere. Black presence with the Seminole also heavily influenced the Seminoles to resist. The prolonged and costly nature of the war proved to the soldiers who fought them that contrary to popular opinion, lessons blacks could fight, had initiative, and possessed leadership qualities. These lessons were lost on the society at large.
In 1820 the Army prohibited "Negroes or Mulattoes" from enlisting and by 1850 the military exploits of blacks had been forgotten. It took the work of John Greenlief Whittier in 1847 and of William Nell, a black historian, in 1851 to remind the Nation that blacks had honorably served in America's military and deserved recognition for those efforts.
2. Here is an example of latino/black political unity in Chicago. Modern
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/5244/1/215
Chicago labor and community leader Rudy Lozano used to emphasize the importance of uniting three large constituencies for progress: organized labor, the African American people and the Latino people. Such unity made possible the election of Harold Washington as mayor of Chicago in 1983 and 1987. Ever since, Republicans, and also right-wing Democrats, have tried to keep these three forces from coming together again.
Currently, cooperation between organized labor and the Latino community is at a high level, sparked by labor’s adoption of the legalization of the undocumented as a major goal. Activities like the “Reward Work” and “Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride” projects, initiated by labor, created very broad coalitions, especially including the Latino community. Cooperation between labor and African American civil rights organizations is long-standing. And African American/Latino unity has been expanding: There is strong Latino support for the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, State Sen. Barack Obama, an African American, who forcefully supported the drivers’ license bill in the Illinois Senate. More Latinos supported Obama in the Democratic primary than supported Gary Chico, a very articulate Latino candidate. Latino community forces have been providing organized support for a measure strongly backed by the African American community: expungement of criminal records of some ex-prisoners, a project of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) and state Rep. Connie Howard (D-Chicago). Of course, Latinos and whites would also benefit from such legislation.
3. Check this out – New American Media – Focuses on the struggles all ethnicities have in America. Attempts to bring forth some unity among blacks and latinos.
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_category.html?page=8&first=70&last=79&category_id=520
4. The latino African American leadership alliance? You claim you down for unity were you down with the black-latino summit held in L.A.?
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ffc283c6f1cb134e4c694b80ed53a165
Some people are actually working for unity instead of fostering animosity.
5. But the greatest impediment or enemy to the production of Black and Latino unity is not White establishment politicians but rather the gross ignorance, prevalent in both communities, of their shared history and "ethnic" origin.
http://www.blackelectorate.com/print_article.asp?ID=378
6. Black latino alliance Black workers for Justice.
http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story3_4_03.html
Building Alliances among black and latino labor organizations. Some people understand the common bonds we share as poor workers.