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Chenjerai Kumanyika

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What's more "American" than the right to protest?

There's always been this tension, these different ways of defining what it means to be American. One tradition is keeping people out of being American, keeping black people, you know, Asian Americans. A lot of the immigration laws were initially formed around them. keeping Latino and, you know, other folks out of being American. That's one tradition.

It's Been a Minute
What's more "American" than the right to protest?

There's always been this tension, these different ways of defining what it means to be American. One tradition is keeping people out of being American, keeping black people, you know, Asian Americans. A lot of the immigration laws were initially formed around them. keeping Latino and, you know, other folks out of being American. That's one tradition.

It's Been a Minute
What's more "American" than the right to protest?

There's always been this tension, these different ways of defining what it means to be American. One tradition is keeping people out of being American, keeping black people, you know, Asian Americans. A lot of the immigration laws were initially formed around them. keeping Latino and, you know, other folks out of being American. That's one tradition.

It's Been a Minute
What's more "American" than the right to protest?

There's another tradition, though, that says that's actually what can make this country strong. If we constantly push to be inclusive and so that, you know, Mahmoud Khalil can be at his Ramadan in this country, that's what makes us stronger. And I would simply say that all three of us, the reason we can be in this position now is because of that second tradition.

It's Been a Minute
What's more "American" than the right to protest?

There's another tradition, though, that says that's actually what can make this country strong. If we constantly push to be inclusive and so that, you know, Mahmoud Khalil can be at his Ramadan in this country, that's what makes us stronger. And I would simply say that all three of us, the reason we can be in this position now is because of that second tradition.

It's Been a Minute
What's more "American" than the right to protest?

There's another tradition, though, that says that's actually what can make this country strong. If we constantly push to be inclusive and so that, you know, Mahmoud Khalil can be at his Ramadan in this country, that's what makes us stronger. And I would simply say that all three of us, the reason we can be in this position now is because of that second tradition.

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