Maxwell Frost, the Gen Z Congressman from Florida, won his seat on a promise of bold change. Can he deliver in a bitterly divided House?
alive, through acts of protest, musical performances, and gatherings where young Americans could find common purpose and advocate for gun-control legislation. People involved in Orlando political activism told Frost that the movement could use someone like him in Congress. He didn’t say it at the time, but “they planted a seed” in his mind.
Frost’s closeness with Yeya nurtured his sense of identity. “Up until that point, I would say I was Cuban,” he said. But he had not yet fully come to terms with it: “When someone would say I was Black, I would be, like, ‘No, no, no, I’m brown.’ I had a ton of anti-Blackness ingrained in me.” With time, Frost tried to rid himself of the anti-Black prejudices he had absorbed from Latino and American culture.
Frost’s origin story required him to answer a question he had ignored for years. “I was adopted out of a pretty bad situation at birth,” he told me. “I never cared to know more about it.” People around Frost suggested that he find out who his biological mother was, not only for his own sake, but to insure that none of his detractors did so first. When he approached his adoptive parents about it, Maritza told him that his birth mother was a friend of a friend.
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