{"id":33868,"date":"2024-08-06T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=33868"},"modified":"2024-08-06T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T15:01:11","slug":"mayor-adams-delivers-remarks-at-flag-raising-ceremony-for-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/33868","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams delivers remarks at flag-raising ceremony for Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams said that we&#8217;re seeing that someone from the Caribbean diaspora is now running to be the president of the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat says a lot about your resiliency. And it&#8217;s the American story. It&#8217;s the American Dream. And it&#8217;s the American experience,\u201d Mayor Adams said while addressing at flag-raising ceremony for Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are who we are because of the contribution of Jamaica and the other Caribbean diasporas and other groups that have come here to say we want to be part of this American Dream and this American experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am just so proud to lift the flag here today and watch many of you come here and celebrate your independence. During your independence it was a rise across the entire Caribbean diaspora of no longer being subjugated by the colonial mindset of those who think we cannot have self-determination and willing to be resilient to fight for what we believe is right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo greater level of dignity is when a man or woman could determine their own destiny. And you brought that spirit here. And it was not always well taken. You go back in time, when you came from the Caribbean, because of your dialect or because of your way of life, you were demonized and you were looked down upon. You were treated unfairly. But you remained resilient. You showed that you, too, had a right to be in the footprint of America. And because of that, you have been celebrated over and over again,\u201d Mayor Adam said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams said that we&#8217;re seeing that someone from the Caribbean diaspora is now running to be the president of the United States. \u201cThat says a lot about your resiliency. And it&#8217;s the American story. It&#8217;s the American Dream. And it&#8217;s the American experience,\u201d Mayor Adams said while addressing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33869,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33868\/revisions\/33869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}