A écouter : l’émission radio édition spéciale Black History Month, réalisée par les élèves de TL Spé Anglais avec la réalisatrice Roxanne Frias au micro, membre du Democrat Caucus in Paris et Evan et Ashley, étudiants à Stanford University.
L’occasion de célébrer pour ce Black History Month 2020 la Mémoire des luttes pour l’égalité, centenaire du 19ème Amendement de la constitution, hommage aux suffragettes, et dans leur sillages, hommage aux héros du mouvement des droits civiques qui à force de lutte ont bâti l’un après l’autre et jamais l’un sans l’autre l’Histoire d’une nation unie : the United-States of America.
Martin Luther King avait un rêve. Obama l’a réalisé. Plus qu’un rêve, c’est l’Histoire d’une nation qui se réécrit à la lumière de sa constitution et des paradoxes de l’Histoire. Il est “the man we didn’t expect”, comme le nomme la réalisatrice Roxanne Frias qui signe lors de la campagne présidentielle de 2008 un premier film documentaire. Il est l’homme des possibles “Yes we can” qui de retour à Chicago, retourne sur les pas de son passé, celui d’un homme métissé, d’un rêve métissé, celui d’une nation unie. Roxanne Frias signe alors son 2ème documentaire “Retour à Chicago” et suit Obama jusque dans l’Iowa pour montrer qu’Obama n’est plus alors le premier président noir, mais bel et bien le 44ème président d’une longue lignée, celui qui peut enfin réconcilier l’Amérique.
2016 marque un tournant. Roxanne Frias sort alors un 3ème film. 3ème postulat “Latinos the changing Face of America”, “Quand l’Amérique sera Latine”. Ce film est un pari pour l’avenir, celui d’un vote qui pourrait basculer, le vote latino qu’elle proclame “kingmakers of the White House”. Dans l’immédiat pour ces élections 2020, une semaine après super Tuesday, qui de Joe Biden, qui de Bernie Sanders ou qui de Trump aura raison des primaires ? Les pronostiques sont lancés. Une chronique rédigée par Messaouda pour mieux comprendre les enjeux de ces nouvelles élections aux USA. A lire ci-dessous, ou à écouter sur soundcloud.
| Elections 2020 : the divide at stake
The 2020 US elections are the 49th elections in America since the first election in 1788. It will take place on November 3rd 2020.
The US system is different from the French system because there are only 2 parties : the Democrats, the leftist and the Republicans, the Conservatives. Right now, we are in the primaries and we can make our bets : who is going to win the elections ?
I was very happy to discuss it with Roxanne Frias. Roxane Frias, an engaged latino-American film-maker who is also an active member of democrats abroad involved in the Democrat Caucus in Paris. As an engaged film-maker, she directed 3 kea movies. The 1st one “Obama the man we didn’t expect” was shot at the time of the 2008 election when Obama was elected as the 1st Black president. 4 years after, she returned to Chicago, Obama’s home place to investigate and make an assessment of Obama’s first term. The film is entitled “Retour à Chicago”. And then for the 2016 elections, before Trump’s election, she started touring US universities to push young people into voting. In this film “Latinos the changing face of America, she demonstrates from a demographic point of view why Latinos are the king-makers of the White House. She explains that the future president might be Latino when young Latinos start voting as the Latino population will represent one third of the US population by 2030. As a member of democrats abroad, she plans to be involved in the 2020 elections one way or another and we asked her about her commitment and her views on the American divide.
Assessment of Trump’s mandate : Perspective of a second mandate ?
First of all, the current president in Office, Donald Trump, is running for a 2nd term. For the moment the polls are not favorable to the president. Even as regards economy which is his main advantage, Americans don’t trust him. But despite this , Trump is likely to be reelected because sinec his election in 2016, the economy has been flourishing. Trump said it himself : it is better to re-elect him to avoid a new stock market crash.The issues at stake : The longest shutdown in History
We remember Trump’s first mandate for his shutdown, the longest in US history. 800 000 federal public servants affected by the shutdown didn’t receive their salary. The situation got even worth this time than in 1996 with Clinton’ 21 days shutdown. This made him quite unpopular.
Polls : Democrat versus republican candidates : Potential winners ?
Yet Trump keeps his chances. In the 6 states where the 2016 elections were played, Donald Trump is only slightly behind Joe Biden and he is ahead of Bernie Sanders, according to a series of polls published by the New-York Times. |
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