“Here at City Hall, as I sit behind George Washington’s desk, alongside
new Americans who came to this country, I cannot see all of America, but >like so many who came before, I can see New York City. The city I see
today looks very different than the one that greeted George Washington,”
he said as a group of foreign aliens surrounded him.
The message was clear: on America’s 250th anniversary, we have been >occupied, our land stolen, our identity tainted by people who weren’t
born here.
He went on to tell the story of how the American Revolution began and how
it nearly ended at the Battle of Brooklyn when Continental forces
retreated to Manhattan. Then, he jumped 60 years forward and began
speaking about New York’s outlawing of slavery, tying both to the idea of
an “opportunity to begin anew.”
During his speech, Mamdani also referenced his own immigration to the US, >saying, “My family did not arrive by boat, although we saw the Statue of >Liberty from the window of the plane. Even from the air, we could make
out the promise of America, the promise of the beautiful patriotic work
of rendering America year after year a little more faithful to its
founding ideals.”
He then denied the notion of “american exceptionalism,”
claiming “the
irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who >were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were >anything but exceptional.” He continued, “For generation after
generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to
our shores, it has not sent its best.”
“We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, >more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is that America
is exceptional
because here nothing is fixed into place.
The frontier may
be closed. We may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the >values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that work >endures, and it belongs to us all,” he added before arguing that modern-
day immigrants from the third world can carry the torch of our native >ancestors.
The band is covering Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" and doing a good job of
it too.
Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in >news:54lj4lhiue4iu0pds9lp7cuok3tcpqu98s@4ax.com:
The band is covering Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" and doing a good job of
it too.
The Kelly Clarkson show featured the orginal
Chicago members doing that, it was wonderful to
see that the old geezers can still rock.
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