That justice limps, but it arrives seems to be the message that the primary elections on June 27 leave us, in which one of the famous “Central Park Five” was elected as a Democratic candidate for the New York City Council.
After spending years in jail, he says he decided to use that history that haunts him to try to find a better future for his Harlem neighbors, struggling with the crisis of a lack of affordable homes or more space in shelters for asylum seekers. who have the New York City mayor’s office in trouble.
The triumph of criminal justice reform activist Yusef Salaam and the election of current Hispanic leaders to the New York City Council makes it less regrettable that turnout in close elections for the nation’s major parties has been low.
This week we chose those who will represent us in the November 7 elections and now they need our vote again, because if they win they will handle the agenda of the laws we need for the Big Apple to recover the splendor that seems elusive after the pandemic.
Then we will decide at the polls the true electoral motor when all the Democrats and Republicans are at stake, to win the greatest number of seats in the 51 seats that are at stake.
And Although in Queens, the Democratic prosecutor Melinda Katz won easily as well as her Republican counterpart from The Bronx, Darcel Clark, these elections are somewhat different because they are two-year terms and the effort of candidates and voters who must go to the elections is double. polls more times for the redistricting of electoral districts.
And although greater voter participation was expected, because there was also a vote to choose judges and prosecutors, this was not the case in several districts, due to the absence or abstentionism of voters, although the votes by mail or absentee ballots still had to be counted.
And since several of the winners are names of Hispanics who have already won at the polls, we want to call attention to ask all our citizens to be more active in supporting allies in the November elections.
We are referring to political leaders of Hispanic ancestry such as Marjorie Velázquez, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Carmen de la Rosa and the daughter of Puerto Ricans Tiffany Cabán.
And we can still broaden participation and make the council speak more Spanish, due to the presence of these leaders, who stand up for those who cannot vote and will be able to help them become future citizens with the right to choose.
The author, Sofía Villa, writes this column in her personal capacity and her opinions do not represent Televisa-Univision where she works as Writer/Producer.