'Even though I’ve never seen anything as horrific as what I saw at the border and over the past three years, I’ve also never seen Americans this loud, this energized, and this defiant.'
It was the summer of 2018, and, like the rest of the country, I had just heard that the Trump administration was
—that kids the same age as my then four-year-old daughter Soleil were sleeping in cages. Staying put at home wasn’t an option. Neither was staying silent., that I needed to go down to Texas. I couldn’t stay still—I needed to use whatever platform and voice I had to shine a light on the atrocities happening there.
“Mom,” I said. “Imagine if when we landed at JFK, they told you and Papi that they had to take me away.”Decades ago, another family arrived in New York City, fleeing violence and dictatorship in their home country of Haiti, wanting their children to have a better life than they did. That family was strong, but not strong enough to withstand the dictatorship that had come to define their country, turning one of the Western hemisphere’s first democracies into authoritarian rule.
That story—of a young girl from Martinique who was just as much Haitian as she was American, and whose family sacrificed so much just to get here—that’s my story. That’s how I ended up here today, a proud Haitian-American—because of two hard-working parents from Haiti who wanted a better life for me. My parents taught me by example what it means to be American: to hope and to dream, and to work hard for those hopes and dreams.
These last three years have shown us the depths of hatred and bigotry. There have been moments that tested my hope and my spirit, like
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