Posted on 03/06/2020 11:38:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said on Capitol Hill Thursday that people should accept 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,” Omar said at an panel discussion she hosted focused on “racial justice.”
Omar began he remarks by quoting activist Angela Davis, who just happened to be among Time magazine’s 100 Women of the Year, published on Thursday.
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist,” Omar said. “We must be anti-racist.”
“Angela Davis spoke those words nearly 50 years ago, but they continue to echo today,” Omar said.
“Our task as organizers is not only to all out the specific incidences of racism,” Omar said. “It is to recognize that our history is built on the oppression of black bodies.”
Like the panelists at the event, titled Five Reasons to #ProtectBlackDissent, Omar said blacks have been targeted by the FBI, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X.
Omar also referenced Fred Hampton, a leader of the Chicago Black Panthers who was killed in a police raid in 1969.
And this targeting continues today, Omar claimed.
“We might think this type of surveillance was a thing of the past, but as William Faulkner said, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past,’” Omar said.
Omar commented on the purpose of the panel discussion, including calling for the FBI to revoke its “Black Identity Extremist” terrorism category and end its “Iron Fist” program, which is designed to “target department resources on spying, surveilling, and investigating black activists, including through undercover agents,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Omar said:
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She’s talking about her fellow Democrats.
Go back to Somalia and you won’t have to worry about White people ever again.
Why do black dictators in Africa oppress black people?
Minnesota, you can have your idiot back.
All countries on the planet have rather violent and “unfair” pasts. Get over it.
Learn from the past, live in the present, and prepare for the future.
Same as the Klan she’s trying to scare black people from ever THINKING about voting Republican.
The return of the Obama racial nationalist socialism (liberal fascism) , as advanced by the multiply married Muslim crook who married her brother to circumvent immigration law.
The witch needs to do a little jail time.
She wants all racial and ethnic minorities to refuse the opportunities offered by America, and instead wants them to live on the leftist Obama plantation demanding hand outs and reparations?
I think making it in America is much more attractive than Omar’s plantation. So do most Americans no matter what color they happen to enjoy being.
She really needs to go back to her beloved Somalia and take all her Islamic brethren with her.
Corrected
AMEN ! Because there is ZERO chance that our country will become like Somalia like she wishes.......
Go back to Somalia.
It disgusts me that this woman is in Congress.
She belongs at the end of a rope.
Sorry you sicko, but America became a world power long long after racism was abolished...
If you want to be an ignoramus that’s your choice, but don’t expect us to swallow your ignorant American hating claptrap.
Wrong IDIOT. Where did you get that notion from your idiot buddy, Obama? Colonialism. “Charter of negative liberties”. Go back to school, fool. Too much akin to “defensive jihad”. Nice try TOTALITARIAN.
She is right. The mohammedan system is built on the oppression of black bodies.
So when does she plan to start paying reparations?
Why, yes, Islam viewed black bodies as commodities from the very beginning. It’s expressly white prophet Mohammad wanted it so.
That’s YOUR history Mz Onar, not mine or America’s.
there should be a Sanity test for public office
How did the North do so well without slaves ilhan?
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