There is no gratitude in those words, no sense of owing something to this land and the people who turned its wilderness into the most powerful nation on earth. Zoran Mamdani's father fled Uganda when the tyrant IDI Amin decided to ethnically cleanse his nation's Indian population. Mamdani's family fled violent racial hatred. Only for him to come to this country, a country built by people he never knew, overflowing with generosity to his family, offering a haven from the kind of violent ethnic conflict that is commonplace in world history. (29:29–29:38)
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Asserts that Zoran Mamdani's father fled Uganda due to ethnic cleansing by Idi Amin.
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