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_Maxolotl t1_iuju980 wrote

Reply to comment by spulet in ‘The Only Reason We Got It Was That I Lied’ by King-of-New-York

I was born here, and my family has been here since 1854. I'm sixth generation. My kid is seventh. And I work five blocks from where my great grandfather worked.

And based on all my NYC cred, I get to declare your position on this matter is trash.

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elizabeth-cooper t1_iuk39et wrote

That poem is about poor and embattled refugees, not college graduates from Ohio.

Based on my ability to read and 90 years of my family in Brooklyn.

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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