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2020-07-08 Home Front: Politix
Ilhan Omar Calls for 'Dismantling' America's 'Economy and Political System' to Root Out 'Oppression'
[PJ] In a speech at the Minnesota State House on Tuesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) called for the "dismantling" of America’s "economy and political system" in an effort to root out "oppression." She insisted that any wealth disparity between blacks and whites is the result of oppression and urged her fellow Democrats to "tear down systems of oppression" in various sectors of American society.

Omar began her remarks by attacking Minnesota Republicans for refusing to pass the Democrats’ radical criminal justice reform bill, and then moved on to other claims of "systemic racism."

"We can’t stop at criminal justice reform or policing reform for that matter," Omar said. "We are not merely fighting to tear down the systems of oppression in the criminal justice system, we are fighting to tear down systems of oppression that exist in housing, in education, in health care, in employment, in the air we breathe."

"In America today, white families have 42 percent more wealth than black families," she argued. "We are speaking to the fact that homeownership rates are nearly twice as high for white families than they are for black families."

Omar also argued that "environmental racism is real," claiming that black people suffer worse than white people when a natural disaster hits. She noted that the coronavirus pandemic has done more damage in the black community. "When America gets a cold, black communities get pneumonia," she said. "Because I lost my own father to the coronavirus, I see the pain and the havoc it’s wrecking on black communities in Minneapolis."

Then she delivered the telling lines about "dismantling" the "economic and political system" that is based on "profit."
Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-08 05:23|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top

#1 There really are no words.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-07-08 05:30||   2020-07-08 05:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously, there is not enough oppression.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-08 05:39||   2020-07-08 05:39|| Front Page Top

#3 If she wants real oppression, she's going to the correct way to discover it.

There's not much short of a call for treason.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-08 05:47||   2020-07-08 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Deport the bitch.
Posted by Dave D. 2020-07-08 07:03||   2020-07-08 07:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Start with your native country first, beeotch.
Posted by Raj 2020-07-08 07:16||   2020-07-08 07:16|| Front Page Top

#6 You can take the brother marrying whore out of Somalia, but ...
Posted by Chunky Ebbanter9368 2020-07-08 07:36||   2020-07-08 07:36|| Front Page Top

#7 See Angry African Bees
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-08 08:01||   2020-07-08 08:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Ilhan Omar paid $878G to new husband’s consulting firm, data show: report
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-08 08:04||   2020-07-08 08:04|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm all for dismantling the demoncrats
Posted by DarthVader 2020-07-08 09:18||   2020-07-08 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 ...and there it is, folks. It's a Cambodia-style Year Zero she wants. Nice of her to admit it.
Posted by Maggie Poodle6767 2020-07-08 10:09||   2020-07-08 10:09|| Front Page Top

#11 So we can all live like they do in Somalia.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-08 11:55||   2020-07-08 11:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Dismantling America? Leave America alone. How about boot Omar out of office and prosecuting her for her crimes?
Posted by JohnQC 2020-07-08 13:42||   2020-07-08 13:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks for sending those troops to Somalia and starting this whole thing, Poppy!
Posted by charger 2020-07-08 14:01||   2020-07-08 14:01|| Front Page Top

#14 IIRC, it was Bubba who sent the troops to Somalia, although not enough of them to avoid the Blackhawk Down situation. Typical of a Democrat to send troops into harm's way with inadequate numbers and firepower.

IIRC, that was when people over there were starving because of a famine and warlords were stealing UN food shipments.

You try to help them and this is what you get. But no worries. If Omar has her way, the collectivization of all those capitalist American farms will cause a famine here so there will be none left over for Somali famine relief.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-07-08 17:23||   2020-07-08 17:23|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Les Aspin Secty of Def - without armor
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-08 18:29||   2020-07-08 18:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Clinton approved of and continued the policy, but it began with Bush.
Posted by charger 2020-07-08 19:52||   2020-07-08 19:52|| Front Page Top

#17  There really are no words.

Oh, yeah there are.

not enough of them to avoid the Blackhawk Down situation

Fly down the main street freeway often enough and somebody might get the idea y'all are gonna do it again. Sometimes the 'white supremacy' mindset makes people complacent.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-08 20:54||   2020-07-08 20:54|| Front Page Top

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