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Idaho refugee famly fleeing electn discrimination

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A Refugee family fleeing Idaho after elections

My refugee family and I are reaching out to you with a louder outcry to save us from living in extreme fear and devastation after being targeted and persecuted by our neighbors and community in Idaho for being Congolese American, a black family of 5. The pressure of discrimination and open racist attacks came to us from the week of the elections, it was one afternoon when we were coming back from the food store and found our neighbors cleaning up their guns in the back of their trucks with their Trump flags waving high in the parking of our apartment complex, we tried to address our safety and security concern to them as trying to protect ourselves and our children, and it all escalated immediately from 0 to 100! They claimed to being free to do whatever they want with their guns and that they are the law and Idaho belongs to them! Being worried for the safety our 3 babies, we decided to inform the management of the complex, who later sent out notices to all doors of the complex, condemning this exercise and this raised the tensions through the roof and beyond our expectations. And later this warning was introduced in other complexes in the entire Boise community, all the fingers are being pointed at us for speaking against it, our neighbors raising Trump flags and spewing hate towards us led us to inform our church about our concern, we have been receiving multiple death threats and now, we are being targeted and afraid of losing our lives miserably in Idaho. We are hiding in our house and afraid of getting out. we have not put our image here for safety and security reasons.

Coming from a war torn country in Africa, being forced to run from our home Country after losing Parents and some members of the family due to extreme devastation, running to neighboring countries , being forced to become refugees and seeking for safety. Struggling for many years, more than a decade in a refugee camp!!! before finding the light that welcomed us and brought us to America, and in that very hard refugee struggle we forged a way to build a young family, and were resettled by the help of a refugee agency in Idaho to rebuild a long lost life. We got lucky to start over in the very conservative state of Idaho, we have met very many challenges along the way and got denied so many opportunities just because of the way you looked, we got subjected to extreme hard labor and the racial divide, and all the hardship that the people of Idaho and environment could present to us.
As we are just coming from surviving a war tragedy and a refugee lengthy painful process to come to America, we represented courage and relentless pursuit to safety,  we kept on the fight as we persevered through it all!

We are trying to get out of Idaho as soon as we can to save our family, and with your help to support this cause we shall be able to breathe from another place, we would love to move out even today if we had the means. Thank you and may God Bless you all abundantly.

Organizer

Pascal Rudahindwa
Organizer
Boise, ID

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