Sunday, August 21, 2016

Sunday Reflection - "I Was Born Here"



I think his words are very dangerous.  When these types of comments are made, no one thinks about how they really affect people. I’m African American. I don’t have another home to go to. My family was born here. I was born here. I’ve grown up in Jersey. All my family’s from Jersey. It’s like, well, where do we go?” --  Ibtihaj Muhammad, bronze medalist in the team sabre competition and the first American competing as a Muslim to win a medal in Olympics history, on neo- fascist hatemonger Donald "Rump" Trump's Islamophobic hate speech.  We're proud and fortunate to have people like Ms. Muhammad as fellow Americans. People like Donald Trump?  Not so much.

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