NEW YORK, CMC – The Caribbean-American neighborhood in New York early Wednesday expressed profound disappointment and frustration over the election of Donald Trump because the forty seventh president of the USA.
Trump, the forty fifth US president, defeated Caribbean-American US Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of Jamaican-born retired economist Dr. Donald Harris, within the hotly contested race.
The previous President, amongst different issues, survived a legal conviction, indictments, assassination try, and costs of authoritarianism in securing the requisite swing states—together with Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania—and gained 277 Electoral School votes to reclaim the US presidency. Harris obtained 224 Electoral School votes.
“It’s very disappointing,” Guyanese-born New York State Senator Roxanne Persaud advised the Caribbean Media Company (CMC), including, “The underside line is America just isn’t prepared for a lady president.
“She’s (Kamala Harris) one of the best certified. It’s misogyny; it’s a disgrace,” added Persaud, who represents the nineteenth Senate District in Brooklyn, New York, about Harris’s defeat in Tuesday’s US Presidential Elections.
“We have now work to do. We’ll by no means hand over. By way of ethical compass, I don’t assume they (Trump and his Republican surrogates) have any. It’s unhappy when somebody can speak about such evil and reward him.
“A girl has to leap via all of the hoops and nonetheless don’t get elected. His (Trump) surrogates are talking what he needs them to talk. He stated he’s going to ship immigrants house; it’s the immigrants who’re babysitting their youngsters, and so forth,” Persaud added.
The Jamaican-born neighborhood activist, Delroy Wright, stated he was in disbelief in regards to the elections’ outcome.
“I can’t imagine it. America has voted for a person who solely makes use of sound bites and has no complete plan on how he’s going to steer this nation. He makes use of sound bites corresponding to’ immigrants are poisoning the blood of America; they’re taking Black jobs; Kamala just isn’t Black.’
“I can’t perceive how America can fall for that,” Wright advised CMC.
“The economic system is nice. Kamala has put ahead a transparent plan of what she would do for America and even put ahead how we might pay for them,” he stated, including, “Within the conventional America that we all know, bread and butter points have been the primary cause why a president is elected or bought re-elected.
“Trump has had one prior probability, elected, the place he inherited a superb economic system from Obama (former US President Obama), and he ‘tanked’ it, and mismanaged COVID-19 pandemic – the one main challenge he confronted as President. He encountered no different main downside, and he mismanaged it to create nice hurt to this nation – an incredible lack of life – and tanked the economic system within the midst of it.
“Come January 20, 2025 (Inauguration Day), he’ll once more inherit a superb economic system, based mostly on all the usual measurements, and I predict he’s going to ‘tank’ that additionally,” Wright stated.
Brooklyn-based lawyer Benjamin Pinczewski, who’s lively within the Caribbean-American neighborhood and helps a number of Caribbean elected officers, stated he was “very annoyed, disillusioned, disgusted and downhearted” by Trump’s victory.
“I’m very disillusioned, however I’m not shocked. I believe White America was enraged over the truth that Obama was elected President, and so they by no means bought over it,” he stated, blaming President Joe Biden for the loss.
“He was considerably impaired however refused to step apart till it was too late, unfair to Kamala and America,” Pinczewski stated, including, “By no means underestimate the hatred so lots of our fellow People have for folks they understand as ‘completely different.’”
Grenadian-born adjunct faculty professor Martin Felix warned that it is going to be a protracted, chilly winter, a metaphor for the 4 years approaching.
“I believe the polls have been exhibiting a more in-depth race than what transpired,” stated Felix, an government member of the Brooklyn-based group Caribbean-People United in Help of Kamala Harris for President.
“I imagine that was as a result of folks had cognitive dissonance (mentally conflicted). They could have been too embarrassed to say overtly they’re voting for Trump. However in the end, their racism, sexism, and anti-immigrant sentiments bought the higher of them.
“I imagine our worst fears got here via. Many individuals have been impacted by racism and misogyny, and so they allowed base instincts to get higher of their cause,” Felix stated, noting that whereas working in polling stations in Brooklyn on Tuesday, “lots of people have been fearful a few Trump administration.
“The hazard is actual as a result of he (and the Republicans) has the (US) Home, the Senate, and the Presidency. The factor for us to do proper now could be to re-organize, regroup, replicate, create.
“There’ll be loads of assault on Black establishments. We’ll want an outlet. So, now we have to create these areas, strengthening our cultural retailers. We’ll endure some troublesome occasions however should discover time to prepare and resist.”
St. Vincent and the Grenadines-born neighborhood employee Sherrill-Ann Mason-Haywood, a Brooklyn resident, stated, “We have been on the fitting aspect of historical past, however America has spoken loudly. As unhappy a day as this can be for us, now we have correct selections to make.
“America has despatched a loud message about what it needs to protect: its unique rules. Allow us to always remember the ‘experiment that America was set as much as be and that it annihilated the native peoples and introduced enslaved folks to carry its experiment to life. It’s nonetheless within the enterprise of destroying and enslaving folks.
“We have to both stay docile and settle for the outcome, and cope with regardless of the penalties, or begin educating ourselves, unifying and consolidating our pure energy to construct a unique, extra inclusive nation.
“However first, we should cease blaming one another; that has been one of many grasp’s instruments to divide us. We have now to heal and transfer on firmly in our communities. Our organizing can not cease and wait for one more 4 years,” Mason-Haywood stated.
“We have now actual selections to make. We both keep and construct, or we go away the American experiment. Weeping could endure for an evening, however pleasure cometh within the morning.”
In his victory speech in West Palm Seashore, Florida, Trump stated he was the chief of “probably the most vital political motion of all time.
“We overcame obstacles that no person thought attainable,” he stated, stating that he would assume the Presidency with an “unprecedented and highly effective mandate.”
However Murad Awawdeh, President and chief government officer of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella coverage and advocacy group representing over 200 immigrant and refugee rights teams all through New York, stated, “Trump won’t defeat us.
“New York wouldn’t be the identical with out the immigrants who’ve constructed and rebuilt our tradition and economic system for generations,” he advised CMC.
“Donald Trump has demonized our communities at each flip of this election and has promised to tear aside the households which have contributed a lot extra to our nice state than he has. We stopped him earlier than, and we are going to cease him once more.
“Collectively, we are going to combat the fascist President-elect and his racist deportation agenda each step of the way in which – to make sure that our immigrant neighbors, households, and communities will reside in security and with dignity.
“We should stand collectively to guard our immigrant neighbors and to construct a simply and inclusive future for all New Yorkers,” Awawdeh advised CMC.
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