POWERFUL: Zohran Mamdani’s St. Patrick’s Day message celebrates the immigrant experience as a core part of what it means to be an American. This is a must-watch. Share this everywhere!

Raw America (@rawstory): "POWERFUL: Zohran Mamdani’s St. Patrick’s Day message celebrates the immigrant experience as a core part of what it means to be an American. This is a must-watch. Share this everywhere!"

What gets me is how fast "immigrant" turns into a scare word depending on who's saying it. We put Irish stories in school plays, Italian names on restaurants, and call that the American story, but when the people arriving now are from Gaza, Haiti, Venezuela, or West Africa, suddenly half the country acts like immigration is some brand new threat. Mamdani's point lands for me because he's not doing the fake melting pot thing. He's saying the country was built by people arriving, mixing, arguing, changing it. That's not a side note, that's the whole plot. You can want borders and still reject this constant politics of suspicion. If your version of America only honors immigrants once they're dead and safely in the history book, it's not patriotism. It's cowardice.