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Abdul El-Sayed: “There are some people who want to define America as being…”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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The Future of Muslim Political Power: Abdul El-Sayed, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Adam Hamawy

Published | Video Starts at 05:29

It's that you're normalizing the ability to represent and be fully and 100% American, because America doesn't look one way. And the other part of this is that, like, there's constantly this question of, like, what is America? And There are some people who want to define America as being small. Your J.D. Vance's of the world, your Donald Trumps of the world. They think America is this very small place that only belongs to a very small group of people. (05:29–05:35)

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Asserts that certain political figures promote a narrow definition of American identity.

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