One thing about Ilhan Omar that has always bothered me is her accent. The fact that she HAS one speaks volumes. I know and have met many adults who were brought to America as children, ages 5-12. The ones who assimilated into American culture, attended American schools, grew up with the speech and language patterns of the place they spent their next decade or so.
What Omar’s accent tells me is, she, and other Somalians I’ve heard who also “came here as children,” have never assimilated. They even say this openly, how they’re Somalian, they live for Somalia, they REPRESENT Somalia all while they’re speaking out against America, our culture, our traditions, our economics, creating large fraud rings, etc.
They’re tribal, isolationist in the extreme.
They’re NOT Americans.
#SendThemBack
My brother and I were both adopted. I was born here, but he came here from Italy when he was 8 years old. He couldn’t speak a word of English. You couldn’t tell, now. He assimilated completely.
In fact, today is his birthday. His 73rd. Gotta call him later…
It is a virtue symbol to give her a free pass if she speaks a foreign dialect. Oh, you are not an American so we will look the other way.