A former slave and two-time Olympian just became an Airman

We Are The Mighty ^ | Feb. 26, 2018 | Airman 1st Class Dillon Parker

[Freeport]

We'll take more like him.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Just goes to show we should not stereotype people.

[Beagle8U]

Will he be kneeling for the Anthem?/sarc

[Blood of Tyrants]

Did he ever get his US citizenship?

[Freeport]

Yes, the article states that.

[I want the USA back]

The left doesn’t want to hear about great men like this.

[semaj]

Yes. Compare him to the current crop of snowflakes, illegal immigrants, and street justice “warriors” our society is infested with. Mr. Maker proudly stands head and shoulders above them all.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Interesting. A slave! I wonder what white blue-eyed devil owned him? Or maybe in reality his owner was really one of his African "Black Panther" bruthas. /sarc.
 

[Blood of Tyrants]

I read it but didn’t see it.

[PCPOET7]

notice also his uncle applied for immigration and after a two year wait he immigrated with his uncle. he never was an illegal alien he and his family did it the way we want it to be done.

[4everontheRight]

A GREAT example of what being an American is all about. I wish we had more like him!!

[Freeport]

After looking again, it’s inferred.

Other sources state that he’s completed everything for citizenship, but there seems to be ambiguity if he’s taken his oath.

So, I can’t say for certain that he is a US citizen.

[Moonman62]

Interesting. A slave! I wonder what white blue-eyed devil owned him?

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Liberals may have their heads explode if they read this article.

[Yo-Yo]

After two years of filling out paperwork at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Egypt, Maker and his uncle’s family were finally granted permission to enter the United States.

Welcome to the United States, the legal way.

[Former Proud Canadian]

What a story.

[matthew fuller]

I read in the article where he did fill out paperwork for US citizenship, but while I was even looking for it, I still didn’t find where it says that he did become a citizen. Am I missing it?

[goodnesswins]

later...thx for posting

[Preachin']

When I was in a service-member didn’t need to be a citizen. He/she could join our military and be guaranteed US Citizenship at some point. I like that way of doing things.

[BeauBo]

“notice also his uncle applied for immigration and after a two year wait he immigrated”

It is just for humanitarian reasons like the case in Sudan/South Sudan, that we have provisions for refugee immigration.

Like everything else, leftists twist that program into tool for their political advantage, but it has a very valid, even noble, underlying purpose. Makes me proud to welcome him - a man of good character, struck by truly horrific misfortune.

[PCPOET7]

there is nothing wrong with humanitarian reasons for immigration... the important thing is that he allowed us to give him permission to be here....in a lot of ways his entry was a role of the dice but some times the role is not snake eyes but lucky seven. we gained with this man entry to the united states.