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Fateh was born in Washington, D.C., and is the son of immigrants from Somalia. He graduated from Falls Church High School and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from George Mason University.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Fateh

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He isn't a foreign born citizen at all. Born in D.C. He doesn't even have an accent. They saw his name and skin color and masked off their stupid.

[–] SleepyBear@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Fair enough, that shows off my ignorance I honestly spoke without doing a lot of research on Fateh. Oops. The point still stands though! 😂 P.S. I realize it says this in the summary of the article, turns out I cant read either. Lol