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A review by ninakeller
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman by Ilhan Omar
5.0
I really enjoyed this easy-to-read memoir. I stand with Ilhan on political issues around human rights and anti-bigotry, and now I have profound appreciation for her struggles and her tenacity. Her story is a template for the American dream. Her work as a public servant defends the spectrum of identities that make the USA what it is.
Her critics who come at her for being “ungrateful” or somehow anti-American, clearly view American identity as a narrow caucasian Christian myth. I understand disagreeing with her politics, but attacking her religion, national origin, gender, etc— is just clearly outside fair discourse.
Her critics who come at her for being “ungrateful” or somehow anti-American, clearly view American identity as a narrow caucasian Christian myth. I understand disagreeing with her politics, but attacking her religion, national origin, gender, etc— is just clearly outside fair discourse.