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Sept. 22, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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Nestride Yumga Loves America Too Much to Stay Silent
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And she is Nestride Yumga.
She's originally from Cameroon.
She's immigrated to the U.S. The U.S. is lucky to have her.
And her video is, I love America too much to stay silent.
And Nestride, it is a delight to meet you.
It's my pleasure to be your guest today, Dennis.
I'm happy to be here.
Wonderful.
So are you happy with the video and the reception?
I am more happy that I was able to connect to Americans and remind them of the treasure we have of the country.
Wow, that's beautiful.
You know, but just as a matter of interest, both Alan Estrin and I were in Cameroon, and so, you know, you're not a...
You're not a stranger in that sense.
Cameroon is not just a name to us.
We have been there.
When did you want to come to America?
Erica, at what age?
First of all, I was sad by saying that I grew up in very tough conditions.
You know, there's always the need for an escape.
That has always been a permanent need for an escape.
America, you know, is the country everybody on the world knows about them.
I don't know when I realized a place in the world called America existed, but I knew about America.
There's one lady in America who inspired my childhood growing up.
Her name was...
She's Kando with the Rice.
She...
Don't get me wrong, I was very young.
I didn't know much about politics.
I didn't know about Republican, Democrat.
All I knew was a very, very strong woman in America who inspires me and don't even ask me how.
She inspired me a lot.
In the midst of the feminine, you know, search for the escape, you know, there was hope.
There was some kind of hope, and there were a few situations, you know, which triggered the, okay, this is it.
Either you find an escape or, yeah, you stay here and rot.
It was a permanent search for an escape.
Right.
Wonderful.
Well, as I said, thank God you're here.
You are an asset to the United States.
How do you explain, in your mind, how do you explain the hatred even of America among so many Americans?
Oh, quite frankly, I truly want to be as respectful as I can be because as an American, I truly want to be as respectful as I can be because as an American, I citizens.
But I firmly believe it.
It's an absence of other experiences.
It's an absence of, you know, sometimes even maturity.
It's an absence of appreciation.
And sometimes I want to say maybe it's because we haven't had the chance to see what happens in other parts of the world.
And sometimes I even...
That's just me and my thoughts when I see some of these situations.
I feel like I would be glad to someday organize a film trip to different places.
And when I say different places, I'm not talking about those necessarily known for the most dangerous, but just the average places in the world and have them see what...
But people outside of America go through and realize what we have as a country.
And don't get me wrong here, Dennis.
I'm not saying that we are perfect.
There's room for improvement.
There's definitely room for improvement.
But if we do not appreciate what we have, we're not going to move forward.
We're going to destroy what we already have.
That's right.
Hold on there, would you?
Nestride Yumga's video on why she loves America.
As an immigrant from Africa is up at PragerU.
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