Ilhan Omar Quotes 'Still I Rise' Responding to Trump Tweets

Huffington Post writer Dominique Mosbergen draws readers' attention to Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's use of a line from Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise" in response to Trump's interest in sending dissenters, including Omar, "back to where they came from." Mosbergen writes that as "supporters of President Donald Trump chanted Wednesday to 'send' U.S. citizen and congresswoman Ilhan Omar 'back' to where she came from, the Democrat from Minnesota affirmed she would 'rise' in the face of hate. In a tweet, Omar quoted a stanza from 'Still I Rise,' a poem penned by the late writer and civil rights icon Maya Angelou. 'You may kill me with your hatefulness,' Omar wrote. 'But still, like air, I’ll rise.'" More: 

The first-term congresswoman was reacting to a tweet by political commentator Jon Favreau, who described the “chilling” scene of Trump supporters chanting “Send her back” at a North Carolina rally following vitriolic comments made in the last few days by the president about O

Omar followed up the Angelou quote with a tweet asserting, “I am where I belong, at the people’s house.”

“You’re just gonna have to deal!” she added.

At the Greenville rally, Trump renewed his attacks on Omar and three other Democratic congresswomen of color, whom he described as “hate-filled extremists.”

“If they don’t like [America], let them leave,” Trump told the crowd.

The president also accused Omar of “launching vicious anti-Semitic screeds” and of minimizing “the Sept. 11 attacks on our homeland, saying ‘some people did something.’” 

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