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Attorney, radio and television host Mark Levin dedicated a segment of his show to listening to and commenting on a viral video in which a patriotic American immigrant responds to President Joe Biden following his divisive speech in which he referred to former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “extremists.”
Levin, who found the citizen’s statements in the video to be “absolutely fantastic,” finds it curious that the sentiments of naturalized immigrants are often “the most compassionate” about the United States.
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The proud American citizen, who introduced himself as Alma Ohene-Opare, describes himself as a “person of faith,” united in marriage for the past sixteen years, and the father of four children, who immigrated to the United States “full of hope, optimism and the willingness to do what was necessary to achieve the American dream,” referring to the president’s speech as divisive.
“I am a proud American, a law-abiding patriot, and a man willing to defend the principles and values that made America great and brought people like me here,” Ohene-Opare notes in his impassioned video. “Mr. President, I am also a conservative Republican, or what you have recently labeled a ‘MAGA Republican.’ In the last few days, you have looked into the camera and called me and millions of other people like me ‘extremists.’ You have told me and my children that we don’t matter to you because of our beliefs. Your spokespeople and the media have labeled us as dangerous, full of hate and a threat to democracy.”
Citizen calling on Biden not to divide country
Ohene-Opare blasted Biden for suggesting that conservative U.S. citizens would not stand for a showdown against State’s F-15s and calling former President Trump’s supporters terrorists without taking the time to “acknowledge our humanity, listening to our concerns, or seek to understand our fears.”
“I was born in a country where my rights were not always guaranteed,” he continued, “and to hear the president of America and leader of the free world dismiss more than 70 million of his own countrymen as fringe and extreme and not worth listening to, breaks my heart and makes me wonder what I should tell my children about the future of this, what was once a great shining city on a hill. This is the reason many of us embrace the call to make America great again.”
The man warns Biden that America is under “moral, fiscal and spiritual assault” and that the MAGA movement seeks to restore hope that the country will remain a place where effort is rewarded and true potential pays off.
“We are MAGA because we believe in freedom of speech, freedom to exercise our religion, we believe in limited government and the rule of law,” the man continued. “We are MAGA because we love the Constitution and believe our founders established the means for We, the people, to defend it from enemies both foreign and domestic. I am MAGA because I want to be able to look into the eyes of my four black children to assure them that they are not victims, that they hold inside them what it takes to accomplish anything they set their hearts on.”
He went on to tell Biden that Republicans in the MAGA movement do not accept what happened on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, and believe that the guilty should face justice, but that they are also able to recognize efforts to demonize GOP supporters and call them insurrectionists.
“This November will be the first time I get to exercise my right to vote. A right I waited nearly two decades to earn,” he insisted. “I understand the urge during an election season to attack those you see as political opponents, but, Mr. President, I am not your enemy, and the tens of millions of MAGA Republicans are not filled with hate for anyone. We love this country.”
Finally, he asks Biden to “tear down this wall of divisiveness” that seeks to divide Americans and to leave aside the rhetoric that seeks to “demonize and defame” millions of citizens.
Touched by Ohene-Opare’s words, Levin stresses that legal immigration serves so that “gentlemen like him” can come to the United States to contribute to the country, love and embrace it, and compares him to Congresswomen like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who are “trying to destroy it from within.”
Tomás Lugo, journalist and writer. Born in Venezuela and graduated in Social Communication. Has written for international media outlets. Currently living in Colombia // Tomás Lugo, periodista y articulista. Nacido en Venezuela y graduado en Comunicación Social. Ha escrito para medios internacionales. Actualmente reside en Colombia.