Ilhan Omar responds to ‘send her back’ chants with Maya Angelou poem
Representative Ilhan Omar responded to Trump supporters chanting “send her back” at the president’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina by tweeting a poem by Maya Angelou Wednesday night.“You may shoot me with your words,But still, like air, I’ll rise.”You may kill me with your hatefulness,– Ilhan Omar July 18, 2019The poem, published as part of a collection in 1978, is one of Angelou’s most famous works, and was even used in a public service announcement for the United Negro College Fund.
“And obviously and importantly, Omar has a history of launching vicious, anti-Semitic screeds,” he added. That led to many attendees chanting “send her home.”Ryan Saavedra, a reporter at the conservative site The Daily Wire and self-proclaimed “harshest critic” of Omar, said the chants were “not good.” In a follow-up, Saavedra tweeted, “like it or not, Omar is a U.S. Citizen and you can’t deport a U.S.
POTUS has a responsibility to put an end to it. He alone has the ability to do so. Chant “vote her out.”The president made no efforts to stop the chanting at the rally. In fact, his attacks on Omar have intensified over the last few days. Last weekend, Trump tweeted about Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen of color, telling them to “go back” to where they came from. .
Trump did not directly address the chants following the rally, instead posting a series of tweets thanking Greenville and pitching the Republican National Convention that will also take place in North Carolina next summer.
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