Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty ImagesDuring my junior year of high school, I slammed a door on my fingers. As I was hopping away cursing, the pain was replaced by an awestruck realization: I was swearing in English.
That moment — undignified, indignant, graceless — was one of those precious times that I felt myself becoming American. Almost every immigrant has at least one common experience: the inevitable reminder that there are people who feel you will never belong in this country. U.S. media love running photos of naturalization ceremonies, the last step in an arduous process when immigrants swear allegiance to the United States and receive citizenship certificates, as if a single photogenic moment can possibly capture the formation of a bond between person and country. I always smile at those pictures. No ceremony, no matter how moving, can bestow “Americanness,” any more than a wedding vow can generate love.
I was 10 when my family came to the U.S. as political refugees fleeing Soviet anti-Semitism. The process of assimilation lasted years. It came in fits and starts, in quiet little moments you can’t plan or study for. It’s instinctively cursing in English when crushing your hand. It’s discovering yourself calling Team USA “us” and not “them” or “the Americans.
THINK AG BARR, Will gave a field day, Charging all the Tradors with TREASON. All need to be put to Death
THINK One look at Vindman and you can certainly see how he made rank!
THINK Trump and his followers are anti-Semitic, nothing they are saying about this man is a shock.
THINK There can’t be any more pitiful attempt at an insult than for a privileged do nothing but take take take American, to question the character of someone who has paid to be a citizen with his own blood and honor. All of the self absorbed MAGAns should hide their faces in public.
THINK hunter 50 grand every 30 days , bring out the jergen lotion
THINK It wont happen when trump loses the election, but a part of me wishes we did have the civil war the far right want so this country can remove the stain of the klan the nazis and its orange headed leader which would in turn make his promise of America being great true. stainbegon
THINK People who are trying to smear him are doing it because he was born in Ukraine,, not because he’s Jewish . This is pure drama and disgusting
THINK What Omg...you people have lost it
THINK You guys have gone batshit crazy, I mean, total insanity. Which one again is reviving anti-Semitic accusations of divided loyalties? who is writing all this nonsense?
THINK This is the first time someone tries to connect the smear campaign to antisemitism.
THINK Yoo and Duffy need to lose their jobs. LTC Vindman is a good American that put country before party. His courage speaks volumes.
THINK I stand with Vindman
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