Kamala: "I have been thinking about and asking the question: What makes you proud to be an American?"

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Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris
I know so many of us have been struggling as we watch the chaos and cruelty inflicted by the current administration.

But while on the road this year, I have been thinking about and asking the question: What makes you proud to be an American?

I hope we can hold on to that pride as we work together, fight back, and consider how we rebuild as a nation.

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[Hope22]

1. Too soon to ask the people that question.

Let’s ask Congress! I would love to know their answers!

[leftstreet]

2. "What WOULD make you proud..."

The answers to that question could be illuminating

[2naSalit]

3. Not proud of...

Or about anything. I think pride leads to a sense of superiority and I just can't get behind that.

[hlthe2b]

4. Yes. I actually decorated the front porch & door for St. Patrick's Day, including a small Irish Flag

and lots of Shamrocks. I can still have some pride in a distant link to Ireland (not sufficiently close for citizenship, unfortunately and hard to document as my grandmother never spoke of it except in passing).

But, thinking of the approaching July 4 hoopla--I would love to be deep in the mountains around no one and no thing to escape my dismay, disgust, and shame for our country. I want NOTHING to do with celebrations.

[betsuni]

5. Americans can be extraordinarily generous. Volunteering, donating food and clothing and things to the

"poor needy" (as my mother used to say), donating money. If you fall down usually somebody's going to help you. You can sit next to a stranger on the bus and they'll tell you about their life, even really personal stuff, in a way I find thrilling, and you can be someone's friend almost instantly without knowing them from childhood. There's something kind of childlike or adolescentlike in the American personality.