This week handed a big win to candidate Safiya Khalid and her belief that with persistence, one can overcome adversity.
On Tuesday, Khalid, 23, became the first Somali-American elected to the city council of Lewiston, Maine, winning nearly 70% of the vote.
And, while each of these cities carries unique stories around immigration throughout the last two decades, Lewiston is a special case. Going back to 2002, a little more than 15 years before Khalid's big win, more than 1,000 Somali immigrants and refugees found Lewiston and made it home. Khalid was one of them in 2006.
In October 2002, then-Mayor Laurier Raymond wrote a letter to the Somali community asking its elders and leaders to stop encouraging other immigrants to move to Lewiston. "These are guys by the name D-Money, Smoothy, Shifty. … half the time, they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave," LePage said.The emergence of Somali immigrants nearly two decades ago was followed by lowered crime rates, a number of businesses opened by the Somali community as well as the arrival of more immigrants from countries all over the world, according to the Sun Journal newspaper in 2011.
"During the last week before the election, there were a lot of people saying hateful things to me. The entire race turned into a negative campaign," she said."It was a lot of hateful social media and harassment and threats, and it really ripped my heart that people would say these terrible things to someone they never met and didn’t know.""What pushed me were the people I met at the doors. They were the most genuine, kind-hearted people I have ever met.
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