Ilhan Omar Delivers Fiery Comments During NYT Interview

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is no stranger to controversy. 

But in a section of her new book, she seems proud of the things that she does and says.

In her new autobiography, “This Is What America Looks Like,” Omar writes:

“I am, by nature, a starter of fires. My work has been to figure out where I’m going to burn down everything around me by adding the fuel of my religion, skin color, gender or even tone.”

While speaking with the New York Times, Omar was asked: “Couldn’t that kind of language be interpreted as a form of demagoguery? Why is it helpful to express yourself in those terms rather than, say, in terms of building things up?”

Omar’s response was very telling.

“It’s metaphorical. There are many times when people will say, ‘Something you said has agitated this space.’ And it’s like, no, it’s me just showing up that did it,” Omar began.

“There are times when I will choose to not show up, because I know that my presence brings about intensity that isn’t going to be helpful,” she said.

She added: “There’s no one else that exists in a space where they have to deal with the hate of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-Blackness, but also with sexism.”

“People will say it’s my ‘tone.’ I’m like, you’re agitated by my tone because you think people like me should be sitting in a corner, not heard and not seen. Everything that comes out of my mouth is going to be filtered through the lens of you despising my existence,” she added.

“That’s the metaphorical adding-of-fire. That was a thing in the primary campaign,” Omar said.

Omar, who was born in Somalia and lived in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the U.S. in the 1990s, has previously accused the U.S. of virtually being a fundamentally bigoted country.

In March, Omar claimed that American power comes from racism and that “our history is built on the oppression of black bodies.”

“From slavery to Jim Crow to redlining to mass incarceration to voter suppression, racism is part of the foundation of American power,” she saidduring a Capitol Hill panel on “racial justice.”

“From slavery to Jim Crow to redlining to mass incarceration to voter suppression, racism is part of the foundation of American power,” she saidduring a Capitol Hill panel on “racial justice.”

In October 2019, Omar attacked the U.S. and its foreign policy, saying Americans don’t like being reminded that “we have been a villain” in other parts of the world.

“We’re very comfortable being the hero in every story. We are not comfortable anytime somebody reminds us we have been a villain. It’s my job to make sure we can end this story as a hero,” Omar told TBS’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

In October 2019, Omar attacked the U.S. and its foreign policy, saying Americans don’t like being reminded that “we have been a villain” in other parts of the world.

“We’re very comfortable being the hero in every story. We are not comfortable anytime somebody reminds us we have been a villain. It’s my job to make sure we can end this story as a hero,” Omar told TBS’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.

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