You want to talk about good timing. My Great Great Grandfather left czarist Russia around 1904 (today it is part of Belarus). He was dodging conscription into

You want to talk about good timing. My Great Great Grandfather left czarist Russia around 1904 (today it is part of Belarus). He was dodging conscription into the Russo-Japanese war. He saved up and was then able to pay for my Great Grandfather to come over at age 13. My Great Grandfather barely missed out on the Bolshevik Revolution. A few years after that Hitler wiped the whole Shetl off the map. I've been in the states long enough that when someone asks my ancestry "American" is the most reasonable answer. Yet you won't see me succumbing to the vulgar fashion of the nativist nationalists with their anti-refugee, anti-immigrant rhetoric. Unless you're native American, you're a boat person. If I can still see it despite several generations between me and the boat, then others must be purposefully obtuse. As someone that arguably stands to gain from the redefining of American identity in terms of ancestry, I just got to say these blood and soil people are un-American.