These are challenging times that we live in. As I have traveled around the community since November 5^th, I have come across a lot of anxiety, particularly among the African American, Indigenous and Immigrant communities.

After the election, it was surprising to learn that there was an uptick in African American and Latine voters  who voted for Donald Trump. We’re not talking about a massive movement towards Trump. As of today, December 11, Trump actually only earned 49.9 percent of the vote, less than 2.8 million votes over Kamala Harris. No matter how they act and what they say, this was not a landslide except in the Electoral College, which has always slanted toward rural states.

Donald Trump’s strategy was always to peel away at the constituencies that make up the Democratic Party. It was never his aim to appeal to the masses of African American and Latine voters. But he would say and do things that would peel away voters. Trump’s feinting towards criminal justice reform that had Kim Kardashian as the standard-bearer? It never happened because Trump’s base would turn on him. But it was a way to pretend that he had Black men’s interests in mind.