Question

Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell responded to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, with this argument: "Amazon was created by Jeff Bezos, whose adoptive father was born in Cuba. Google was co-founded by Sergey Brin, who was born in Russia. Would we be a better country if they had not been admitted? Of equal importance, what are the chances that if Steve Jobs had lived his life in Syria he would have created Apple? Or Jeff Bezos in Cuba? Or Sergey Brin in Russia?" He argued that

Answer 1

Options are;

- America should come first in negotiations with other countries

- diversity should only include geniuses

-diversity is America's strength

Answer:

-diversity is America's strength

Explanation:

Note, we are to consider the context in which the Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell was speaking. Remember, we are told he was responding to a group that is often known for their anti-immigration/diversity sentiments.

Hence, his statements were more of an argument in support of diversity. In other words, diversity is America's strength.