We have to be organized, we have to know our history, we have to politically understand why this is happening.
It was last fall when Joddy Nwankwo, a high school junior in Massachusetts, found out that she had the chance to attend a student leadership conference taking place in D.C. over Inauguration weekend. The conference offered a chance to actually witness the inauguration, and she was thrilled at the opportunity to see the transfer of presidential power firsthand.
After Trump’s surprising victory, however, the 16-year-old was no longer sure if she wanted to attend. But with counsel from teachers at her school and her parents, both immigrants from Nigeria, she chose to make the trip. On the eve of the inauguration, Joddy spoke withTeen VogueJoddy Nwankwo: We signed up for this, I think, in either September or October and we thought the election would go differently. When I was signing up for it, I was hoping that I would be able to witness the first woman president be elected, so that was something I was looking forward to — until we did find out who was elected. We took some time to figure out whether or not I was going to go to this. [My teachers] Ms. Wilde and Ms.
My teacher who I was speaking to the day after the election reminded me that my attendance didn’t mean that I was a Trump supporter. … My dad told me that whether it was Trump or it was Hillary, I was invited to this amazing summit and it didn’t matter who was going to be president, that I was invited because of what I brought to the table and the things that I had done over the summer and that I couldn’t let anyone dictate my trajectory.
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