To: Rep. Raúl Grijalva (AZ-3), Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-5), The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

Tell Congress to Raise the Profile of US Virgin Islands Hurricane Relief

Raise the profile of hurricane relief in the US Virgin Islands post Irma and Maria.

Why is this important?

The truth is, we have two crises in the US Caribbean post Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The islands were destroyed by Irma and drowned by Maria. The University of Virgin Islands alone sustained significant damage, and at the time that I am writing this petition, their classes are suspended indefinitely.

The institution is presently trying to raise almost $1,000,000 to feed, clothe, and house students and staff in recovery and rebuild their campuses so that classes can resume.

If a voice is raised for USVI as it is for Puerto Rico, I believe UVI might twice exceed its goal.

I believe that if progressives are going to make a lackluster disaster response for Puerto Rico a matter of racial victimization, leaving USVI out of the discussion all together is a "criminal" ignorance that handily contributes to the American spirit and climate of anti-Blackness.

Please raise the profile of disaster relief efforts in the USVI so that these Americans are not invisible and forgotten.