Don't Wait for the Election: ADC's Freeman Says African and Diaspora Nations Must Proactively Influence U.S. Policies That Affect Them

Kassie Freeman

The upcoming presidential election will have major implications for the nation's policies on immigration, climate change and other challenges that profoundly affect African and Diasporic nations. But African and African-descended people should not wait until November 5th to take a united stand on those issues, argues ADC founder, president and CEO Kassie Freeman in an opinion piece published by the Morocco-based Policy Center for the New South. For example, African and Diaspora voices should be "making the case that migration benefits countries as much as it benefits individuals," Freeman writes. 

That call to action applies regardless of who takes the White House, Freeman writes. Which doesn't mean ADC lacks a strong rooting interest in who wins. "With all the excitement, joy and historic outcomes that a President Kamala Harris would bring to African descendants everywhere... it is easy to imagine who Africa and the Diaspora will be supporting."