[1]Bowman for Congress

John,

As of today — on the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration, and the final day of
the Trump presidency — there are 400,000 dead from Covid-19 in our country
alone, with deaths disproportionately affecting Black and brown people.

Almost one year later, tens of millions of Americans are still unemployed
or underemployed. Many are still struggling to survive and put food on the
table. Students and teachers aren't being supported or prioritized enough
as they're nearly halfway through another school year.

On top of this, we’re still recovering from the aftermath of a violent
insurrection at the Capitol, fueled by Trump's seditious intentions and
powered by his mob of white nationalist supporters. Major parts of
Washington are restricted ahead of tomorrow's inauguration.

Despite all of this, so many of our country's leaders — including some of
my colleagues in Congress — continue to tout the narrative of American
exceptionalism. 

But make no mistake,
John. This is exactly who we are,
and we must accept it. 

Throughout our country's history, any amount of social progress has always
been accompanied by white backlash, particularly from the people who are
afraid of the multi-racial democracy that we are becoming. 

The violent attack on our nation's Capitol on January 6th is an example of
such. The day after we elected our first Black and Jewish U.S. Senators
from Georgia, we saw an attack on the Capitol. 

This is a new baseline, and now we have to deal with the issue of white
nationalism and white supremacy at its core — in police departments, in
housing, in medicine, in our schools, in all of our institutions. 

We cannot allow our government to continue to uphold a racist and unjust
system that allows police brutality, mass incarceration, and white
supremacy to run rampant.

I see our new administration and our new Congress as a chance for us to
start over. It's an opportunity for us to begin at a new baseline and stop
spreading the myth of American exceptionalism, so we can start building
the multi-racial democracy we deserve. 

We must continue to listen to the people and challenge one another as we
develop and organize towards long-term solutions for Black and brown
communities, for working class communities, for all communities — not just
the white and wealthy.



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Peace and love,

Jamaal Bowman


 


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