Just a few days ago we marked the
anniversary of D-Day. We fought for something then, something that
was bigger than any of us, the right of everyone to live free of
persecution because of who they were.
Then recently there was a mass protest
in Hong Kong against what people there perceive as China's erosion of
their political freedoms. They too were trying to fight for
something bigger than themselves.
Striving, struggling, and fighting to
make this world a better place was who we were. We didn't become a
great country just because our economy was large, it was because we
cared enough to fight for those less fortunate, even if it meant we fought
ourselves. We would have been on the side of those protesters in
Hong Kong, just like we would have helped the people who made their
way to our shores.
The young woman in this video clip said
she would have been a different person if she had stayed in Syria,
she would have been a different person if she had been born here. It was because of the hurdles she overcame to get here and the struggle to adjust to
life in America that she became the strong, confident young woman who now has dreams
she never envisioned before. We should be proud to call her one of us.
Donald Trump and his followers are not
who we are. They are an aberration that must and will pass. I
believe, as one of my favorite singers says, in us.
