His dorm room was 'beautiful,' he says. 'I didn't have to use my kerosene lamp.'
Comment: sounds like setting someone up for failure. typical american move. help you better yourself and desert you. being american isn't all what it's cracked up but it's free. probably the best part, maybe abass will profit off his education and show the world america isn't what they think, we're free to express anything we want and as americans, we over do that to the extent of causing failure. hmm politics in the bush?
Comment: Setting a person up for failure. Feeding "em fish without show them how to catch fish. making something sound good when the end result will place this young man back in harms way. being american isn't all what it's crack up to be but free enough to say what i want and when. it's a long story repeated over time.
Comment: Abass, good fortune.
Now, the aim of this propaganda story and others like this one is a deception aimed at making bad people feel good about themselves. Europeans invaded and destroyed indigenous societies UNPROVOKED, caused people to be scattered and struggle unimaginably for survival. Then the Europeans turn around and write a 'feel good' story about ONE IN THOUSANDS of failures to make themselves seem like saviors.
Imagine, first playing a major role in creating miserable conditions for peoples, then turn around and pat yourself on the back because you rescue ONE OF YOUR VICTIMS among thousands from the European-created abyss! Is there any behavior more deceptive, self-delusional, beastly and devilish? Tsk tsk! For SHAME!
Comment: well done abass. Its also a matter of strong will power and the inner desire to persue the best.
Comment: Being a refugee, Abass must understand well the value of education and how much they can effect to his life. The differences between two worlds can cause lots of confusion but also the spirit and willpower. Thanks to the programs such WUSC which somehow changed many lives like Abass as well as the whole world's future.
Comment: being a refugee, Abass must be understand well the value of education and how much they can effect to his life . The difference between two worlds can cause lots of confusion but also the huge spirit and willpower also. Thanks to the programs such WUSC which somehow change many lives like Abass as well as the future for the whole world also.
Comment: yes what you say is too true... and I see it everywhere...even when I go to the laundromat... on the corner while waiting for the bus ... in the fine restaurant ans I wait for my steak and lobster ... its just eveyrwhere! But what sya I, can be done about this... well, next time order just the lobster thermidor and have a bottle of Chateanuef du Pape instead... there I've said it again!
Swisspeas
Comment: TooDamnDumb - spell check is a beautiful thing!
Comment: I didn`t go to Andover or Choate so I`m too stupid to figure out how to use spell check. You sssssshould read Shakespeae`s notes on display at the British Museum. He couldn`t spell worth a damn either. Churchill always said that those with little ideas are great grammarians and even better spellers.
Toodamndumb.
Comment: Toodamndumb clearly has too much time on his hands to respond to each and every comment. I guess there isn't much to be done when you're hanging out on the extreme right all day, other than search for feel-good stories about how the good in people is still able to triumph over their differences. It amazes me that people like you try to find the problems in every story published by liberal news magazines, claiming that it's eroding the American culture. Pour yourself a new bowl of frosted flakes and settle down.
Comment: Toodamndumb, you are an embarassment to this country. This is a story of how many people from different nations can get together to help one single individual achieve a goal and, in the process, help his family pull themselves from poverty. Abass has earned everything that is coming to him, including our respect. This is a story of how our system should work. No one is suggesting that we "send them all to Harvard and bring all their relatives over here." Your very ignorance is evident by the way you suggest the outrageous in trying to refute a feel-good story and someone's support of that story. Go Abass!
Comment: Mr. Toodamndumb, you must be one of those ignorant white men who's biggest fear in the world is an educated Black man(from anywhere) Get a life, and be happy for another human being for once in your life. Apparently no one in your family has or ever has had the determination to do great things with their lives. You were obviously perfectly content with living in the narrow-minded and bigoted world that you live in.
Comment: My Dear TriceNVA, Does your moniKer mean three times the North Vietnameeze Army? How on Earth would you possible know my race? I wrote earlier how this largess of feeling good liberalism would have been far better spent on refugess from Katrina hanging out on street corners in Houston or Atlanta. I fear no educated black man. Charlie Rangel is a hero of mine. I can`t abide rich people playing God with other people`s money. This guy could do a lot more good for his Somali people in Mogudishu than he can for us in our multi-cultural sess pool. We don`t need a thousand more Moslems crowding in here setting up schools for Jihad.
Toodamndumb
Comment: I am so very moved by this young man's story--his experience of war as a child, racial discriination in his own country, extreme poverty and deprivation, violence, and a lack of decent schools. And yet he managed to focus on his studies. He sounds extraordinary. He must have a brilliant mind. He certainly speaks humbly in the video piece. This is what the prosperity of our nation has to offer the world--chances for many more beautiful stories of people living out a better destiny due to our help. May we always be generous.
Comment: Mr Beck, There are about a billion people world wide in this guy`s image. Why not send them all to Harvard and bring all theirr relatives over here. It made you feel good to read this story. It made me throw up my breakfast. I see the mongerlization and corruption of the American race and I am powerless to stop it as long as people like you feel good aabout our cultural destruction.
Toodamndumb
Comment: From which American race and culture you are talking about? US culture consist only of Mc Donald's and MTV. If you talk about mongerlization then look into the mirror.
Comment: Requirement: Inlist in the U.S. Armed Services for a hitch and then get your freebies! Dumbfroggfreak
Comment: Hey Buddahead, Did you post here by mistake; or were you saying the guy should have joined the army to get citizenship and benefits. The son of the Somali war lord who orchestrated Black Hawk Down was in that very unit. Of course he wasn`t supplying intell to his old man. Moslems always put the USA over their love of Jihad.
Toodamndumb
Comment: Requirement: Inlist in the U.S. Armed Services for a hitch and then get your freebies! Dumbfroggfreak
Comment: Dear Get a Grip, For the amount of money that has been spent on this guy, at least 5 American refugees could be given room and board at a community college. I am sorry if the unvarnisshed truth rained on your feeling good parade. In the end America will be weaker as more Fundamentalist Moslems flood in here.I guess you missed Black Hawk Down.
Toodamndumb
Comment: TooDammDumb's comments make me angry. That young man got where he is because of hard work and perseverance despite difficult circumstances. Admirable qualities! Black kids in Houston or Atlanta who demonstrate hard work and determination have opportunities too. It's more about values and a mindset.
Get over it..............we all have influence over our own detiny.
Comment: " And even bring some family members to the United States," well ain`t that grand. We have thousands of black kids hanging out on street corners in Houston or Atlanta yet some swell decides all America needs is to rescue some poor devil from a refugee camp, 5000 miles away.. It is a fine example of chairty not beginning at home.
Before this exercise in feeling good is over, we will have anothr 100 or so aliens flooding in to take jobs away from those kids who were refugees from Katrina and the Bush administration.
If they wanted to help him why not send him to the world`s largest college, the University of Cairo where his Islamic beliefs won`t put him inthe minority and he and his kin wouldn`t put hundreds of black kids out of work.
Rich people once again have proved that even in charity they act selfishly.
Toodamndumb
Comment: The American Dream is alive and well. Let's just hope it doesn't get marginalized by these Universities who appear to profit off people like this young man. If they aren't actively traveling the globe recruiting the next best athlete, they are advertising the fact that they have students from xx amount of countries and xx amount of ethnicities. These students are become merely placeholders rather than being seen as true assets to their respective communities.To me, and like most things, Western Universities don't do enough to expand higher education to the global population. While I commend the WUSC for all that they have done, realistically 1,000 since 1978 is not a lot of students (roughly 30 a year). Imagine how dynamic and thought provoking a classroom on international relations or foreign policy would be with students from every continent represented? How about a debate on economics with a student from Kenya and a student from NY City?
Imagine the possibilities? I think it breeds new life to Dr. King's "I have a dream speech." The American Dream is not exclusive to just us citizens.
Comment: Touching Story, but Ineed to hear more about the Father in the D.C, projects That stood by his family, and Comunity against overwellming odd's. If you have not heard this story, you should have, but unfortunatly it keep being pushed back bhind the Obituaries. While People from another country are on the front page.
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