Trump’s racist rhetoric led to a crowd at his rally to chant, “Send her back.” Ilhan responded with inexplicable strength and dignity, tweeting a verse from Maya Angelou poem, “Still I Rise.”
This chant was directed toward Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, who came to America as a young girl fleeing violence in Somalia, qualifying her for refugee status. Now a citizen of the U.S., Omar—one of only two Muslimmembers of Congress—has faced Yet, in spite of death threats, racist attacks from the White House and other members of Congress, and a rally of Trump supporters chanting that she return to Somalia, in an incredible demonstration of patriotism, she persists.
Last night, she responded to the chants with strength and dignity, tweeting a verse from Maya Angelou You may kill me with your hatefulness,
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