Rep. Ilhan Omar: ‘I Will Continue to Speak Up Because Representation Matters’

EXCERPT:

OMAR: “There is this idea that you are a suspect if you are an immigrant. Or if you are from certain parts of the world or a certain skin tone or a Muslim. It is no accident that members of the Republican Party accuse the first black president, Barack Obama, of being a secret Muslim. It is no accident that former president Donald Trump led a birther movement that falsely claimed he was born in Kenya. Because to them, falsely labeling the first and only president of the United States of America, a Muslim, an African immigrant, somehow made him less American. Well, I am Muslim. I am an immigrant. And, interestingly, from Africa. Is anyone surprised that I am being targeted? Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy? Or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced? Frankly, it is expected.”

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