Two weeks after the election ... what have we learned.

"Two weeks after the election and it has been a little not so good, kinda bad", that was me paraphrasing Saturday Night Live's Sketch: Weekend Update.  If you haven't seen it, its a sketch comedy show.  Two anchors deliver the news in satirical fashion.  They were right on point on Saturday's show.  I'm glad a show in a major network is open to talk about the "majority of the country's" view on the results of the 2016 Presidential Election.

Right after the election there was this sadness across the country.  The news that Hillary Clinton did

not win the presidency said a lot of things about the country.  America is a country divided.  America is bigoted and a sexist country.  The entire world saw it.  They saw the country's weakness.  This was made public by President Elect Donald Trump as he broadcast his feelings openly to the world about woman and people of color.  Speaking clearly I feel his comments perhaps have now generalized all of us into one big negative stereotype.  I hope he has not built a wall within the country.

Quite the majority of the nation seems to be afraid that Trump and his assigned entourage may start deporting people because of their status of their legality. Primarily his changes appear aimed at Latinos.  Will we be forced to wear a badge to show that we belong here?  Meanwhile the President Elect is busy trying to figure out how he will spend half his time at the white house and half his time at his New York residence.

Many young college and high school students have taken to the streets in protest of what they think Donald Trump may have in mind "Making America Great Again". Does Donald Trump mean to say "Make America White Again"?

I have talked to many people from blue collar and white collar Latinos and most have resigned themselves to the results of the election and have taken on a "lets see what happens" kind of attitude.  I don't think Latinos can afford to have this attitude.  What do we know about Trump? We know that he finds loopholes in the law and he is not afraid to use them.  He does not always follow the rules and may break them at any opportunity.  In some news releases he appears to degrade women.

We cannot rely on the system to stop him from making laws that do not represent the Latinos of our country.  We really have to gather with our hearts and minds to implement a plan against what may be coming.

Personally, what bothers me the most about the President Elect is the fact he avoided paying taxes and he has used bankruptcy, as if it were going out of style, to get him out of financial responsibility.  I watched my immigrant parents lose their businesses and pay every cent they owed, even if they had to work 2 jobs and miss their kids lives in the process. I watched two good people work so hard to make an "honest living".  That is the reality for most of immigrants in this country.

All citizens pay taxes.  The money he avoided paying many feel he owes our country.  It's time for payback. That money could have helped to clean the streets, build education and assist governmental agencies.

If I avoided to pay my taxes, I would get bullied by the IRS until I paid them.  If I still don't pay  the IRS will garnish my wages.  Can you image that they would come after little me.  Regardless,  I still have to pay my taxes, there is no loophole for me.

What am I doing about it, well I am expressing my opinion.  I am writing about it and I'm sharing it.
And I'm using my journalistic outlets to make people think.  I have been elected "Reina de Latinos Unidos L.A", and I plan to use my position to reach out.

Let us Latinos unite and think and take action!


/jc