“One of my main missions is to open the doors so that our young people see that it is possible, that they can achieve it,” Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos says, “but also so that our immigrant community knows that they too can achieve it.”
Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos delivers her inaugural address in Providence on Jan. 3. She's one of the nation's first Afro Latinos to be in a state executive office.Juliana Jiménez J., Noticias Telemundo
Matos was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, in Paraíso, Barahona, in the southwest. Her mother was a teacher and her father was mayor of Paraíso. She had a childhood “with a lot of love and a lot of sense of community,” Matos said. “My dad is here and everything I’ve been able to achieve has been thanks to him and my mother, and their sacrifices,” Matos said., “we arrived in April and I said that I would return by December.” But she managed to learn the language, stay and earn her degree from Rhode Island College.
“There are always the comments about whether you really deserve to be where you are. Did you work hard enough to get there, to be in the position,” Matos said. “Many people were making comments about my hair, my skin color, my accent... We always have to work twice as hard to achieve respect.”“I am now at a stage where I feel that I am not interested in eliminating my accent. I believe that my accent makes me [as I am], and it says a lot about my history, about who I am,” she said.
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