"“Nobody looked like us,†said Rodrigo Venegas, 31, co-founder of Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, a center for political activism and hip-hop run out of a warehouse in Mott Haven. “It was white, liberal, young people who for the first time in their life are feeling a small percentage of what black and brown communities have been feeling for hundreds of years.â€"
At the beginning, there was a visible scarcity of blacks and other minorities among the protesters at Zuccotti Park, which was jarring to people of color who considered joining. Getting the movement t…
