On Wednesday, Ghanian comedian-actor Michael Blackson celebrated being officially sworn in as a United States citizen.
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Blackson shared a photo of him holding up an American flag on the day of his induction and captioned it, “They finally made me an American citizen. Only foreigners will understand why I’m smiling and what we go thru to get a green card or citizenship.”
In an interview with TMZ, Blackson spoke about becoming a citizen. He said, “It [America] made me this bigger, better person that would help the world. America has been nothing but a blessing to me, and I’m happy to be a citizen.”
“Just like everybody else that comes to America, they come here for this American Dream, and I really am living the American Dream,” he added.
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In another post shared, Blackson showed off his green card and gave a back story to his journey on becoming a citizen.
“I’m showing ya this because I have to turn this in back to the U.S immigration today at 10 in Los Angeles,” Blackson wrote.
“I’ve made a living making fun of America and Americans, but all jokes aside, America is by far the greatest country in the world, and that’s why everyone comes here for an opportunity. Today I’m turning in my green card to replace it with an American citizenship certificate. I’m not going to get into details of why it took over 30 yrs to finally become a citizen, but one reason was I just loved being an African and wanted to stay authentic,” he continued.
“This country has been nothing but a blessing to me, especially my Black Americans who embraced me from the first time they saw me on Comic view and the movie next Friday, can’t forget my Latin Americans who also showed me love then followed by Asian Americans, Indian America then about 5 yrs ago White Americans came on board,” Blackson said.
Blackson was born in Ghana and moved to the United States with his family when he was only 13. Some of the major films he’s starred in are Next Friday, Coming 2 America, 30 Rock, and Are We There Yet?
