Ilhan Omar: “I’m going to burn down everything around me by adding the fuel of my religion, skin color, gender or even tone”
In her new book “This is What America Looks Like” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) writes “I am, by nature, a starter of fires. My work has been to figure out where I’m going to burn down everything around me by adding the fuel of my religion, skin color, gender or even tone.”
Omar is asked in a new NY Times interview “Couldn’t that kind of language be interpreted as a form of demagoguery? Why is it helpful to express yourself in those terms rather than, say, in terms of building things up?
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Coming out in the open.
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