Immigrant Voters Could be American Democracy’s Last Hope

Edwin Okong'o
7 min readDec 17, 2020

We are fighting to preserve the democratic ideals that lured us to America.

The author’s daughter wears bracelets of Kenya and the United States, the two countries of her heritage.

The first time I was asked the question, I didn’t know how to respond.

“If American is so bad, why are you here?”

I was asked the question by an American man of European descent, who was a classmate at the University of California, Berkeley…

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Edwin Okong'o

I write about the dangers of trying to be an entitled Black immigrant in the toxic workplaces of the United States.