Explore and Expire.

Thus, when Obama claims that this isn’t who we are as a nation, Trump supporters can say this is exactly who we are. The racism that has been intensifying in recent years in the form of higher rates of hate crimes, white supremacist rallies, white supremacist provocateurs like Milo Yiannopolous gaining prominence, and the election of a president who engaged in racist rhetoric throughout his campaign are not random events that came from nowhere. They constitute backlash in response to progress in racial equality in our country, backlash that springs from racist attitudes and values that have existed as long as America has existed. Your statements would fit very seamlessly in this comic as a dialog in a word bubble of white commentators in 2017. Had you lived in a different time period and held the same attitudes, you’d be saying the same things as the other white people in the comic.

The question we can all ask ourselves in any time period is what side of history will we be on? In future generations, we look back on former expressions of racism with disdain, but it’s easy to overlook our own iteration of the same. If you call Black Lives Matter activists thugs in 2017, you would gave opposed MLK’s movement in the 60’s. The fight that’s being fought today is the same that was being fought then. If you say “it was different then–Black people had real problems, but now racism is solved and they should be happy with what they get” or “the Black people back then fought for their rights the RIGHT way, but the ones today are too aggressive” or “nowadays it’s white people who are actually oppressed” then you are LITERALLY using all the same talking points critics of the riots in the nineties, opponents of MLK, proponents of Jim Crow, etc used back in the day. There are texts in which white people complain of reverse racism over one hundred years ago–would you agree that Black people had advantages over whites over a century ago? Of course not, that would be absurd. But some white people really felt that way then, and some feel that way now.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a kind of administrative relief from deportation. The purpose of DACA is to protect eligible immigrant youth who came to the United States when they were children from deportation. DACA gives young undocumented immigrants: 1) protection from deportation, and 2) a work permit. The program expires after two years, subject to renewal.

What Are The Requirements For DACA?

You were under 31 years old as of June 15, 2012;

You first came to the United States before your 16th birthday;

You have lived continuously in the United States from June 15, 2007 until the present;

You were physically present in the United States on June 15, 2012 and at the time you apply;

You came to the United States without documents before June 15, 2012, or your lawful status expired as of June 15, 2012;

You are currently studying, or you graduated from high school or earned a certificate of completion of high school or GED, or have been honorably discharged from the Coast Guard or military (technical and trade school completion also qualifies); and

You have NOT been convicted of a felony, certain significant misdemeanors (including a single DUI), or three or more misdemeanors of any kind