'As a citizen I am disappointed in this government, but as a Black person, I am not surprised. We are not only living through the coronavirus crisis; we are living through yet another racial justice crisis.' mielafetaw on voting in the WisconsinPrimary:
As a young child, my immigrant parents instilled in me a sense of the privilege of citizenship. For them, I saw how citizenship guaranteed access to our democracy and a promise of opportunity. I remember helping my parents study for the citizenship test when I was in the sixth grade, and learned about the density of the U.S. federal government.
My family and I immigrated to the United States almost 20 years ago, with a leg of our journey after leaving Eritrea to spend time in Italy, where my mother had spent most of her years undocumented. Many of our family members around the world are refugees, asylum seekers, or undocumented immigrants, so we have firsthand experience with the privilege of citizenship and what it means not to have it.
As an East African immigrant, my father made sure that my sisters and I knew we were not only privileged to be in this country, but also to be citizens and have rights. He’d go on and on about the sacrifices Black Americans made so African immigrants like us could have an education and go to the grocery store and pump gas and vote — things Black people could not do just a generation ago.
I have voted in every local, state, and federal election since I turned 18. The first time I voted, I walked in with my parents, absolutely beaming that I could share the moment with them. Not voting feels like a slap in the face to my immigrant family and the battle we endured coming to this country. Black people in this country fought for the right to vote, for elections to be fair and free; I fear this election was neither.
And a part of that anxiety is rooted in the racial disparities in who is getting hit by the virus. As of Thursday afternoon, Milwaukee County’s
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