La migra is the tool used against latinidad communities as a means for
population control and to instill a state of fear. This leads to the constant
whitewashing of our identity in order to try and strip the criminality from our
flesh.
[Mendoza, Jose Jorge. "Introduction to the Ethics of Illegality." Introduction to the
Ethics of Illegality (n.d.): n. pag. 2008. Web.]
We need to understand the code behind laws and policy and understand that it
was the criminal body that led to the otherization of minorities to justify their
dispensability.
[Mendoza, Jose Jorge. "Introduction to the Ethics of Illegality." Introduction to the
Ethics of Illegality (n.d.): n. pag. 2008. Web.]
“Locoweed” has resurfaced again as el cucuy and now narco-terrorist is the
justification used to impose violence against latinid@d communities.
[Mendoza, Jose Jorge. "Introduction to the Ethics of Illegality." Introduction to the
Ethics of Illegality (n.d.): n. pag. 2008. Web.]
This narrative of the immigrant as criminal is a manifestation of the policing
paradigm that operates structurally within U.S. civil society. Those who are
criminalized are systematically subjected to wanton violence, not in spite of,
but because of institutionalized norms. But the functioning of white supremacy
requires that this violence be ignored or considered solely as “isolated
incidents” in order for society to maintain its ethical coherence.
Martinot & Sexton 2003 [Steve & Jared, Steve is a lecturer at San Francisco State University in the Center
for Interdisciplinary Programs Jared is Associate Professor African American Studies School of Humanities Associate
Professor, Film & Media Studies School of Humanities at UC Irvine Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley,
Comparative Ethnic Studies, “The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy, Social Identities, Volume 9, Number 2, 2003
p.171-172]
The intent of drug prohibition was to establish white supremacy. The code
within the law was one that was fueled by functional racism and exists today
through the prison industrial complex and anti-immigration sentiments
[Chin, Gabriel J., Race, the War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal
Conviction (April 14, 2011). Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 6. p. 253, 2002. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=390109 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.390109]
The tales of locoweed and the dreaded Mexican are still with us today.
Marijuana is the tool used for anti-immigration sentiments and to fuel the
prison industrial complex. We cannot think of marihuana legalization without
understanding the racial dimension of prohibition
[Thompson, Matt. "The Mysterious History Of 'Marijuana'" NPR. NPR, 2013. Web. 10
Sept. 2014.]
Therefore, We affirm the resolution through a historical analysis of the systemic
exclusion of non-white bodies and the subsequent criminalization of Locoweed.
The present moment demands radical pedagogical energies that can make
possible liberatory social transformations. Reformism merely locks in genocide
management as the new center of debate and makes extinction inevitable.
Rodríguez 10 (Dylan, Dylan Rodríguez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic
Studies at UC Riverside. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the
University of California, Berkeley (2001), and earned two B.A. degrees and a Concentration
degree from Cornell University (1995). He has been a Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral and
Postdoctoral Fellow The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position,
Radical Teacher 88 (Summer 2010)