Last year, during the height of the pro-immigration movement in L.A., I found myself in a room of black and Latino community activist-types.

NPR: What Will Be African-Americans' Political Destiny?

The fact is that the pro-immigration movement, with its half million people in the streets of downtown L.A. and a network of support that's not just national but global, didn't need black people at all.

NPR: What Will Be African-Americans' Political Destiny?