This was the highlight of all the talks for me. A great message delivered well and a truly nice guy. Thank you Amer for presenting.

What a sad, but needed, commentary! Thank you for doing it and thank you for loving America!! Someday I hope all of America will love all our citizens and those who aspire to be citizens.

The last part tore my heart. I'm one who loves her teachers, the fact that your favorite teacher was unsupportive must have really hurt. I'm sorry, hopefully success and happiness will more than replace that awful memory.

@wolf2109

7 жыл бұрын

memories like those arent easily erased or smoothed out with money or happiness. They will usually linger in the back of the mind. Its up to him to find peace within himself and understand that at that time, it literally felt like America versus all arabs and muslims so i really hope he can soon understand it wasnt personal, it was just a misunderstanding

Amer, this American loves you back. Preach it, brother. It needs to be heard.

He dropped the mic without a mic

Wow he's amazing today he was at my school for an assembly and I was so inspired by him .Thanks for the talk

"ethnic from southern part of Ethnia!" love that!!!

I'm from from Palestine too brother !! cheers

@ChelseaFCMario

5 жыл бұрын

Long live Palestine

@EddieSaleh

5 жыл бұрын

Me too! In fact, both my dad and my older son are named Majdi 😍🇵🇸🇺🇸

@EddieSaleh

5 жыл бұрын

Haha Palestine exists, and has been, since the days of Jesus. Colonialism thieves have no rights in that land. No one answer those trolls. They’ll fly away from this thread soon out of boredom

@AymanQuraini

4 жыл бұрын

@Gold Stacking Get lost "Hasbara" trooper .... can you tell us more about your hasbara activities hahaha

Beautiful. Thank you Amer!

Powerful and maddening ! God bless people like you, raising awareness and perhaps someday changing the world.

Very funny, very sad and very true. Absolutely brilliant

Oh man, you hit the nail on the head :(

There are still (2019) people today on twitter that hold that McCain moment as exemplary civility. The dehumanization of Arabs is very strong in your country. 6:30

I hate having to explain being an Arab to people. I’m Palestinian and they think we’re suppose to all have dark skin and dark features. A lot of us are fair skinned.

@beebee242

3 жыл бұрын

Fair skinned Palestinian here 🙋🏻‍♀️. We are half & half, my father is beautifully darker skinned. I don’t mind explaining it to shatter people’s ideas that are constructed in their minds. It’s amazing when I tell them I’m Christian, that’s the factor that they cannot understand although Palestine is Christianity’s birthplace.... we get asked when we converted.....

Great talk!

They will never do brother trust me on this. Be proud of your origin be proud you are an ARAB be proud that your Grand father is Abraham and he has been chosen by all-mighty god and selected from many nations. We are Arabs and we are proud of us.

The thing that infuriates me is that he is right. Blacks in America wouldn't support an Arab. Even though for as long as we've been here we've been hated in the same manner. I pray for this country.

Thank you Amer 👍

I saw him a live so funny and halirios

I live in Latin America and one of my friends has an Arab appearance. Every time he goes visit his family in Chicago, he’s stopped by airport security. 😅

@gregvaldez1269

2 жыл бұрын

Hispanics can be any race , Spaniards are mostly white but the moors stayed in Spain for centuries , this is why some of us look like Amer .My dad and me pass sometimes for Iranian because even Iranian( Persians) .

@gregvaldez1269

2 жыл бұрын

We are actually Salvadorian and live in Texas , we get this a lot.

Is this guy a stand up comedian? If not he definitely should do a few sets at a comedy club...

@szervosz

6 жыл бұрын

yes he is

Where are we from ? From ? 😂😂😂💪 good job Amer

He's hilarious

Once upon a time in history when Arabic was the wolrd's language and when the west took our arabic numbers and all of our amazing contributions to the world, back then we Arabs and Muslims didn't label people based on their race or didn't demolish Christianity.. And that's why the churches are still there and people of all faiths still living toghether. So I wish America stops jts bias against Arabs.. Not giving us any credit whatsoever..and as a Palestinian , I didn't know what to say when our food is being labeled as Israeli ..America what did the Jews do to you in your favor? they take your taxes , And what harm did the Palestinians do to you? Nothing.

I'm a Syrian and lives in Syria

@djmad156

5 жыл бұрын

Be safe man! Peace and love from Jordan :))

Amer zhal you are natural funny🤣😂

Essentialism, money driven media, two- faced American politics have produced this.

كلام جميل ونت اجمل

You should do stand up comedy man Commmmmme on

Never heard so many people laugh then feel guilt.

Im Arab guy from Jordan, but i do actually love America i dont hate anybody,even though i know there are many haters there :)))

@MoonLight-ig5qe

5 жыл бұрын

Every country has its own share of haters. It's one of the bad attributes of humanity that we need to overcome.

@tigerarmyrule

5 жыл бұрын

@@MoonLight-ig5qe msits also a bad attitude of allah who as you know hates non musli

Whenever one of my friends asks me why I moved from Pittsburgh to Detroit, this is what I will show them.

@DR.199

2 жыл бұрын

Pittsburgh are the worst, i been there for 2 years

I'm Palestinian too 🙌🏻

@anwarabdullah2979

5 жыл бұрын

اهلا وسهلا

@onlyme7248

2 жыл бұрын

اجدع ناس

I wish people here could just be Americans. We’ve all been hated. And the hate divides us. We need to accept that we’re here, and just be “Americans”.

@flyingjet2618

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with your statement, but unfortunately the government is not doing a good job to be proud of being American. Just try to get information, consultation, or assistant from any US embassy abroad!

He's telling the truth if my name was Amer I would wear it with honor. Arab names are great I took the name Mustafa when I was practicing Islam. Arab people were nice to me and I'm not an Arab.

Its so funny..

Wait he just said he is from Derburn Michigan i the video i came from !!

@khisyamh

5 жыл бұрын

Yeap.. i noticed that too..

@000amp1

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he said he was from Dearborn, Michigan in his October, 2018 TedX talk!

I'm glad you actually brought up all this propaganda... well done sir!! I hate the World we live in right now

"If your name is Jihad....be Jay, we don't need that problem." I know of a few "Jihads" here in Australia and one, Jihad Dib, a popular high school principal, went into politics and represents Lakemba electoral district in the Parliament of New South Wales for the Labor Party.

Wow he is funny about it but this is a sad reality in the USA. Im sorry:/

wahshsha funny

I loved the talk, but please understand that love is not enough to be loved back. It is as simple and as complicated as I have no idea why my wife loves me. Loving her, I have never wished to be loved back, but to see her happy. I also wonder if people saying "I love America", do not mean "I love to be IN America". I wonder.

@flyingjet2618

2 жыл бұрын

Love is two ways street. I am about sure most Americans love their country, but necessary their government since lately the government is out of touch with people life!

😂😂😂😂

Am White and Muslim so then my next question would be are we Muslim? Rice was a food group (My white parent's)

I think you should stop caring about what they say it will be easier

@flyingjet2618

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. Just thicken your skin! Have confidence in yourself, culture, and religion.

Brown Americans should ask white Americans where they are "from from." Germany? Ireland? Poland?

"They don't guess I'm Arab," Am said. Is he kidding? He doesn't look white at all. He does look Arab.

@riyadougla539

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking. He looks pure Arab.

@valuecalc

2 жыл бұрын

@@riyadougla539, absolutely. Many non-whites bash whites but don't mind being mistaken for one.

@riyadougla539

2 жыл бұрын

@@valuecalc Very true. So many non-whites (especially Arabs and Indians) get so happy when you mistake them for white.

@valuecalc

2 жыл бұрын

@@riyadougla539, your other comment disappeared.

If this was the United States your skin tone would not necessitate a "leader"? It's self incriminating. Obama had many equivocations like that.

I love America and Israel

:)

Yes Arabia is in West Asia bro unless you are from North Africa. Palestine is still in Asia ladies and gentlemen. Just make it simple and go by the continent

@johnmcdonald9304

5 жыл бұрын

Coach Mo. Why then is it called 'The Middle East''?

@rais1953

3 жыл бұрын

Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon are considered to be in Asia. I'm not sure why, since Cyprus is far from the nearest "European" country, Greece, but close to the Syrian and Turkish coasts and is considered European. Could it be a racial thing? Surely not. Then the rest of the countries classified as Arab, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco, are all in Africa. Since there is so much in common between all of them it would make sense for all of them to occupy one box on the census form. It makes no sense for half of them to be called Asian and half to be called African when both Asia and Africa have such a wide variation of cultures and civilisations.

Donald Trump need to see this video and contemplate his actions. But I doubt he would ever change.

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Come into France, Paris, Marseille, Lyon Lille you will see your futur in USA with Muslims how peace full and gentle people they are. Today we don't even know who we are a republique or soon a charia melting pot.

@abdullahkhatib1464

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, Arabs in America do very well. Highly educated, they make more money than most other groups including Whites, and there is less crime from Arabs than others. Perhaps, Arabs in France are like what you described because you have a lot of racism in France. I have never been to France but from what I hear that there is a lot of racism in your country.

@user-yo4jn5kz3j

4 жыл бұрын

You get what you seed.. What you did to the Africa and to the whole east was unforgivable! . Don't complaint when your country did all crimes and destroyed countries in the name of Jesus Christ.

Are'nt the arab countries in ASIA!!! Up your GK

@DR.199

2 жыл бұрын

Middle east

@imrankh68

Жыл бұрын

And Africa

She doesn't deserve your love

Do you really islam to know right from wrong? Do you really need any religion to have common sense

I disagree. Watch CNN

I cant believe they let this joker do a TED talk. what an embarrassment.

@bbkkjbbv2997

5 жыл бұрын

I did not know that telling the truth is taken as a joke. You are free to think whatever you want but it does non mean this is the truth

@gregvaldez1269

2 жыл бұрын

Why exactly ?