RITCHIE TORRES NOT OUR KINFOLK

We hear Black people in the United States uttering with more frequency, 'Not all skin folk are kinfolk' and 'Black faces in high spaces won't save us.' 

In 2020, many people celebrated the election of Ritchie Torres, the first openly gay Afro-Latinx elected from the south Bronx to the US Congress.

Yet, Torres chooses to side with the imperialist system for his gain. He once stated, 'There are few people in American politics who have been as visibly and vocally supportive of Israel as I've been.' As pointed out in this @codepink video, the pro-Israel lobby generously funds Torres.

Not only does Torres consider pro-Palestine protests anti-Semitic, he opposes a ceasefire, disputes the EU's foreign policy chief's opinion that Israel is starving Gaza, and denies the International Court of Justice ruled Israel is 'plausibly' violating the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. 

We should have known that identity does not determine ideology.