Bibi Haniffa posted:. Funny thing though, all of them came out to vote for Hillary last November as they thought Trump would take away their food stamps. Well Trump is President and they still have their food stamps.
And here you go. When they saw that they had something to gain from voting they did. They need to be educated to the fact that a City Council person is important.
Why blame Indo Guyanese though. Only 13% of the registered Democrats voted so its not as if they were the only non voting ones. I didn't vote either. My local city council person is from the local machine. The others running against him didn't do outreach so I don't know who they are. I am indifferent about De Blasio and knew he would win anyway.
So there you go. Now maybe had I lived in that district I might have voted. But I am not going to condemn those who didn't as this was a poor showing overall citywide.
Also examine within yourself whether homophobia didn't play a role. Caribbean people (black or Indian) aren't comfortable with this yet. He is kind of obvious, even though I don't think that he emphasized it.
In 8 years there will be more NY raised Indo Caribbean people whose attitude to politics will be different to their parents. And if homophobia played a role chances are that it will matter less to these people.
There is a lot that David can do over the next 4 to 8 years. The man is a kid so even then he will still be quite young.
If he is truly worthy of this position then he can take his time to build his base. Like he said maybe he made mistakes. I suspect that he is analyzing them and is going to do better next time. I don't think that he is of the type.