It has been a tumultuous week for U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who was voted off the Foreign Affairs Committee by the GOP. Making good on the political grudge they’ve vocally held against Omar since the last term, Republicans reignited years-old attacks accusing the Congresswoman of being anti-Semitic because of her political criticism of Israel. With…
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#IStandWithIlhan: What the Latest Attacks Against Ilhan Omar Tell us About Anti-Blackness
Yesterday, Trump tweeted out an edited video of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments about 9/11. From Omar’s entire speech, he picked out four decontextualized words—“some people did something”—which he used to further fuel his Islamophobic propaganda and racist agenda. It seems to me that many white, conservative men like Trump are intimidated by strong and powerful…