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The most telling passage in Omar’s op-ed today is when she describes her feelings about America — the country that sent its soldiers to die in defense of her native country, Somalia, and the country where her family found refuge. She describes the discrepancy between “the America we expected to find and the one we actually experienced,” adding:
The America we arrived in was different from the one my grandfather had hoped to find. The land of opportunity he imagined in 1992 was in fact full of challenges. People identified me in ways that were foreign to me: immigrant, black. I learned that these identities carried stigmas, and I experienced prejudice as a visibly Muslim woman.
Omar never expresses gratitude toward the United States. She acknowledges that “our Constitution and democratic institutions are the tools to make it better,” but the country and its people, as they are, are simply not good enough.
In so doing, Omar proves Trump’s criticism of her and the so-called far-left “Squad” correct. She does not like the United States of America; she is willing to lie about it; and she refuses to check her ugly prejudices at the door.
She also repeats a number of false claims about the United States policies, decrying “the caging of immigrant children at the border or the banning of Muslim immigrants or the allowing of segregation in public housing.”
Omar repeats a set of familiar — and discredited — attacks on Trump. The most egregious of these is her claim that Trump “tacitly accepted” the white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, who chanted “Jews will not replace us” at a rally in August 2017.
In fact, Trump explicitly condemned them, several times, doing so “in the strongest possible terms” (Aug. 12, 2017), calling them “repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans” (Aug. 14), and saying they should be “condemned totally” (Aug. 15).
These hateful far Leftist are anti-U.S, anti-white, anti-capitalism and pretty much anti-everything that has made this country the richest and strongest nation in the history of the world. If given a chance they'd run this country into the ground and then their descendants will then need to immigrate to other nations (probably mostly white nations) to also run into the ground. Rinse and repeat.
Last edited by Oldhag1; 07-26-2019 at 10:05 AM..
Reason: Trump is NOT the topic
I see nothing problematic in those statements. They are true. The U.S. is a highly racialized society. One does have to learn to be “black.” Of course, it would be shock to experience prejudice for being Muslim as she came from a predominantly Muslim society.
No link. She went through the immigration processs and became an American citizen. The basic premise here seems to be a blind allegiance to a particular President or political party. If not you lose your freedom of speech rights and must leave the country. Real patriots see the problems this country faces and try to make America better place to live in.
Once again, Trump is right. These hateful far Leftist are anti-U.S, anti-white, anti-capitalism and pretty much anti-everything that has made this country the richest and strongest nation in the history of the world. If given a chance they'd run this country into the ground and then their descendants will then need to immigrate to other nations (probably mostly white nations) to also run into the ground. Rinse and repeat.
I see nothing problematic in those statements. They are true. The U.S. is a highly racialized society. One does have to learn to be “black.” Of course, it would be shock to experience prejudice for being Muslim as she came from a predominantly Muslim society.
Only to those who like to make race an issue. Most of us go about our days and don't give a crap.
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