Where is the outrage?
By Empress Addi
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I write this with the full force of fury, grief, and truth. Because what is happening to our Haitian and Latino brothers and sisters—at the hands of the U.S. immigration and deportation machine—is not just a policy issue. It is a moral collapse. It is state-sanctioned cruelty. It is a wound festering in the very soul of this nation, and we must all ask: Where is the outrage?
We are witnessing children torn from their parents, asylum seekers shoved into detention centers, people shackled on deportation flights to countries they haven’t seen since childhood—if ever. We are seeing mass deportations to Haiti, a nation reeling from political assassination, deadly gang violence, and humanitarian collapse. To call this anything short of inhuman would be an understatement.
Yet somehow, far too many remain silent.
What is more dangerous than the system’s violence is our collective indifference to it. “That’s not my problem,” we say. But I say to you: If your liberation depends on another’s oppression, you are not free. And if we—Black and Brown peoples—cannot come together now, in the face of racialized exile, then when?
This is not only about borders and broken policies. This is about who we choose to be as a people.
The Hypocrisy of a Nation Built by the Exiled
Let’s be clear: Haitians and Latinos have not only contributed to the fabric of American life—they have held it together. From the sugarcane fields to the hospital wards, from hurricane cleanup crews to kitchen lines in your favorite restaurants, we are here. We stood with Black slave survivors and their descendants, and we are the hands that built this nation’s backbones—and its dreams.
Haitian revolutionaries struck the first blow against white supremacy in the Western Hemisphere. Latino and Asian migrant workers have sustained industries while being excluded from the benefits of the very economy they keep alive. And yet today, they are treated like disposable bodies—numbers on a deportation list, not human lives with purpose, culture, or dignity.
A Call to the Conscious
We must refuse to normalize the idea that certain people are illegal. No human being is illegal on stolen land.
We must call on our elected officials—from mayors to senators—to stop using immigration as a political pawn. Where is the compassion? Where is the courage? True leadership is not about optics—it’s about humanity.
We must organize. Mobilize. Speak. Vote. We must look at each other—across languages, cultures, and accents—and recognize ourselves. The fates of the Caribbean child, the Central American mother, the African asylum seeker, the Palestinian refugee, and the Black American teenager facing systemic oppression are intertwined.
If they come for one, they will come for all.
This Is the Fabric We Are Losing
When a young Haitian child, full of rhythm and story, is deported to a place he’s never known, a poem is lost.
When a Salvadoran grandmother is dragged from her home, a recipe dies.
When an undocumented Mexican teacher is sent away, a generation loses a mentor.
What is being stripped away is not only people—it is memory, culture, possibility.
If this continues, we will not only lose lives. We will lose ourselves.
From Empress Addi, To the World
The Empress Addi Podcast was born to amplify spiritual truth, cultural wisdom, and political fire. I do not mince words. I do not coddle systems of power. And I am telling you now: silence is complicity.
This is not a time for tribalism. Not a time for Afro-Latinx vs. African American. Not a time for “they” vs. “us.” It is time for us to come together—as one global people, one spirit, one conscience—and say no more.
The world is watching. But more importantly, our children are watching. What will we tell them when they ask what we did as deportations ramped up? As families were broken? As fear became currency?
Let the answer be: We stood up. We spoke out. We fought back.
With rage, with love, with purpose,
Empress Addi
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Host, The Empress Addi Podcast
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