Deja Foxx nominated for Congress because “Girls like me deserve a fighter”

lusterYou are nominating the Congress in the area where you were born and brought up. How do you describe your background?

Deja Fox: I was brought up by a single mother. She and I have relied on the 8th section of housing, and the benefits of surprise, which some people know as food stamps, and medicaid. I was a free child in our public schools here. So this was an introduction to politics; The things that you needed to survive and get their decision by people in his elected position who often felt far from families like Lee.

Programs like Snap Change based on the elections and the official. How did you realize that these things that I relied were, in fact, political?

As a child, you only understand things as they are in front of you. You do not compare what is happening in the homes of others. So there was no “Aha” moment, oh, it is elections that decide these things. The live experience in the years when our food stamps were cut off. There will be more difficult months or visits in Section 8 where they will come and lose our home, and this may seem to be captured by additional work to ensure that the house is ready. So it was a living experience one day. There were moments of comparison about being a free child in the public school when other children may be packed them unreliable and all brand snacks. But it was clear to me that our family was affected by the things that occur in the news and Washington.

I grew up in the Obama era, which was a completely different political understanding. When Obama was elected, I was eight years old. I was full of hope. I felt that things were bending towards justice, and things were going on the right path. Then by the time when I was 15 years old, Donald Trump was running for the presidency, and I think that the minds of some people erupted – that over the past decade and most of my political understanding, Donald Trump, his chaos, and the cruelty of the political scene.

She participated in the political call that begins in adolescence. How did you have a Moxie to jump at this age?

For me, the policy has always been to survive. The first organizational memory was to see my mother and neighbors making enough together. Everyone was suffering from a deficit in their home: someone was short on the bills, a person’s car was divided, someone needed a children’s cliff, but my neighbors knew each other. We talked, spent some time together, and we did some enough.

I am thinking about the ways when my mother was among the jobs, and I mean that she did every strange job that she could imagine. She handed over the flowers, worked in a mail office, and cleaned homes. She was a career for the elderly, and when she was among the jobs, she was ascending to the children of the children so that one of our neighbors could withstand an additional transformation and because they took this additional shift, they may have gas in their car to drive to school when we had no car. So I really saw while my neighbors met to overcome the roads that were not possessed in one of the richest countries in the world.