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Article: Trump may have America, But the City is still Ours. by David Wallace-Wells.
This article speaks for a lot of New Yorkers the Night of the election and much of the emotion felt at the moment when the city realized Trump had won. This article written by David Wallace Wells is an excellent piece that represents a large portion of the NYC community over the course of the election. His piece is teeming with emotion on what exactly it means to be a New Yorker in the midst of all this tension that Trump had arisen. Wallace-Wells draws New Yorkers, reminding us of the things that bind us and the common sights we see. Wallace-Wells mentions metrocards and fruit stands, two extremely common things in NYC. Wallace Wells also talks about how the two objects, the fruit stand and metrocards have taken on a different meaning in the aftermath of the chaotic election. The objects have become a “talisman” as wells mentions, something that is common enough to bring a sense of familiarity when things all of a sudden seemed so foreign, so quickly over the course of a single night.
Another thing I particularly enjoyed was the unity of New Yorkers Wallace- Wells mentions again. How we stick up for one another as mentioned in his article “and that you shouldn’t intervene when two drug addicts are yelling at each other outside a Chinatown subway station but that you should when it’s one of them yelling at a Mexican woman to clear out of town”. New Yorkers, in particularly the city are joined together by we could say trauma, united by the suck. New Yorkers have weathered many disasters ( not taking away from any other state or country affected by such disasters), including, the disastrous Hurricane Sandy. This disaster of an election is just another scar on our back that we will brag to others to have survived. Compared to rising rent and metrocard prices, a faulty election is nothing. Let’s show the world what New Yorkers are made of.
Questions
Has anyone ever truly taken the city?
Will it even be possible given the huge amount of diversity?
Do you think these strong feelings dividing the city were always there or only manifested because of the election?
Do New Yorkers really say Fuggedaboutit really that often?
