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Don’t Blame Me for the Bad Economy, I’m Just an Immigrant

Germai Medhanie April 21, 2008 at 10:09 am

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 As an immigrant, I would like to share my thoughts with voters in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina about political pundits’ strategies. They seem to operate like arrogant cooks who lost their way while trying to deliver the best dish. Arrogant cooks tend to add more ingredients to the cooking that already went wrong. They [...]

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Immigrant Endorsing Obama

Germai Medhanie February 3, 2008 at 4:47 pm

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As an immigrant, leftist, and feminist man, I am trying to understand what is going on in this historic primary election within the Democratic Party. Here, for the first time, either a Black or a woman will be the democratic nominee for the highest office in the United States. It is historic but these two people [...]

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Never Seen that Many Dishes

Germai Medhanie July 23, 2007 at 10:51 am

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Around Christmas time 1979, I had my first job in the United States. I was happy to have a job but it was also the most depressing time in my life. When I had flown in from Khartoum, Sudan, on July 26th, I had been dreaming about the freedom and fun I would have in [...]

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Plea to my fellow immigrants, let us not bury our voices alive

Germai Medhanie July 20, 2007 at 3:42 pm

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This is a story about finding my voice as an immigrant writer. To write this story, I have to expose my problems with writing. Of course, this is hard because we are not taught to admit our weakness. But when our inner voice wants to write, we have no choice, but [...]

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