Congressman seen in viral photo quietly cleaning after Capitol mob donates suit to Smithsonian

[orangecrush]

July 7, 2021, 2:52 PM EDT
By Kimmy Yam

"Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., is donating the suit he wore in a viral photo that showed him quietly cleaning up the U.S. Capitol at midnight following the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The congressman announced Tuesday that the blue suit — which he was wearing while filling up trash bags with debris after supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the building in an attempt to overturn the election results — has been given to the Smithsonian Institution, which is collecting items from the riot. Kim told NBC Asian America that as painful as that day was for him, the suit serves as a reminder of the immigrant values he and many others grew up with.


“This suit of mine that’s with the Smithsonian now is not because of some high achievement that I've reached in this country. It was because I unfortunately was at the site of one of the most tragic events in our American democracy,” Kim, the son of Korean immigrants, said. “The values it tries to bring about are very much ones that are rooted in my immigrant family. Having humility, having respect for this country that gave us the opportunities that we've had.”

)Image: Andy Kim
Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., cleans up debris and personal belongings strewn across the floor of the Rotunda in the early morning hours on Jan. 7, 2021, after a mob stormed the Capitol.Andrew Harnik / AP)

He added: “I hope other Asian Americans see in that suit the same thing that I see, which is, hope for the kind of future in this country that many of us either immigrated to this country for, or grew up in this country with.”
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1273284






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[struggle4progress]

1. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures

and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

[nuxvomica]

2. Gatsby. Nice.

"their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together". Such people live in a permanent twilight of childhood, every need met, every responsibility held at bay, and yet because it is a twilight, their world is always darkening; they are always afraid of something.

[orangecrush]

3. Quiet humility and dignity

Distilled in one picture.

[Aristus]

4. Opportunity. This is why I fall on the side of the immigrants in the debate on immigration.

Immigrants see opportunity.

American-born white people see only entitlement.