Scared. Shocked. Disappointed: Greater Boston reacts to election
SOMERVILLE — Scared. Disappointed. Shocked. Speechless.
Those were just a few of the adjectives used by Massachusetts voters Wednesday morning, as they grappled with the prospect of Republican Donald Trump as the president-elect. It was so bad for some that they refused to be interviewed, as they pushed past a reporter in Davis Square, muttering, “I can’t. I have no words.”
In his unexpected victory, Trump defied predictions and polls and left many voters uncertain or fearful about the country’s future.
Yugo Ewulonu, 31, of Brookline, said as an African-American man he is frightened by the possibility of a national “stop-and-frisk” program, which Trump had touted as an effective tool to fight crime in urban communities.
“This is the most scared I’ve been, following a presidential election, that I can remember,” said Ewulonu, an architect. “[Trump] said he wants to take the racial profiling policy of stop-and-frisk nationwide. That pretty much means that if you’re black, you’re going to be assumed to be some sort of criminal, assumed to be a suspect. With all these high-profile police murders of African-Americans, that should give all of us, especially in the black community, a lot to worry about.”
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