re: Did Boyer just say something to the effect of

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I am going to assume you watched this award ceremony.

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I watched his entire story, but I didn't catch all of the speech after he was awarded. I missed the part where he said he was proud to be an American.

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The dude was lost for words the whole time, was nervous, and was crying. He clearly didn't know what to say next and most of us in this forum would have shite in our pants had we been expected to speak at that ceremony last night.

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Speaking as perhaps the worst public speaker in every class I've ever taken, his speech was probably an oratory masterpiece compared to what I would have done.

But, it's a public venue and he should be open to critique like anyone else. I agree that people are digging WAY to much to try to be offended by what he said, and my post wasn't really a jab at him. It was directed at this general idea that we have to be proud of things like ethnicity, country of origin, etc.