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Ilhan Omar

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first: 2020-10-31
most recent: 2020-10-31
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“Coming out on an America first banner and rhetoric who are not interested in investing in raising the minimum wage, are not invested in addressing our climate crisis, are not invested in ending homelessness, are not invested in stopping Wall Street from robbing the American people blind or not invested in stopping these endless wars and the bloating of the Pentagon budget. And the way that we get to do what you asked earlier is by continuing to emphasize that and sending out that message to the American people that our work has always been about putting people first. And, you know, the people who are telling you. That we are somehow radical for wanting to feed our children and house our folks and create a livable planet are the ones that are not putting America first and are not the ones that are putting your lives first.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“or even addressing our climate crisis, people say, how can we afford it? How are we going to pay for it? And that conversation never takes place when it comes to supporting our endless wars. It never comes to, you know, the billions of dollars we shell out every single year to the Pentagon. Those conversations aren't asked when we are talking about defending our country looks like. It's almost ironic and laughable that there are so many people who are”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“of foreign engagement. And domestically, I think a lot of people also, you know, I know you talk about this, Bernie talks about this often, is that we don't make a clear connection about the economic devastations that we are living here in the United States and those the least of us are bearing the burden of that economic devastation. And every time they ask for a cancellation of student debt,”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think the awakening of that consciousness is really what has made me a threat to the powers that because it is an important awakenedness that needs to happen. People have to be awakened from the complacency of believing that everything that we are doing outside of this country that we seem to think is done out of a humanitarian point of view isn't being viewed that way to the people we are trying to be responsive to and supportive to. And if we want that value to be carried out on those principles to be carried out, then we have to change the way that we carry out our missions of”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. I mean, so I will say, you know, I think one of the most threatening things about me to not just the right, but to the establishment at large, is that the unique lens that I bring as someone who has lived outside of the United States, who had a window to the soul of America and who now lives in America and is an American who gets to see the soul of America from a different point of view, is that I know how we see ourselves and I know that how other people see us.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we can't move fast enough. We can't dream big enough. And we can't implement transformative change. But what we are mobilizing for right now isn't just to sustain the house and win the Senate and get the White House, but it's to keep up the momentum on the ground because we're going to need an organized electorate in order to have sustainable change.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes and no. I know that there is going to be a cohort within the Democratic caucus in Congress, whether it's in the Senate or in the House that really is clear-eyed about what our objectives are in addressing the decades of social and economic neglect that many of our communities have experienced that have brought us to this moment and have been laid bare by the public health crisis. But I also know that what we are seeking to do hasn't been done before, and we will be faced with many obstacles and a lot of people will try to go back to their traditional conversations about incremental change.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The streets can be legislated. And we can, in the ways in which they have codified profit for corporations and prioritizing capitalist society, we can codify our opportunities for prosperity into law as well. We can codify our right to wealth and joy and dignity and humanity. And I know that that's a great task, but we are up to it. Are But what are some of the obstacles that may also be inside the Democratic Party, right? It's easy in these highly polarized Presidential election context to think of it simply between two parties. But if Biden wins the White House and Democrats win the House and the Senate, do you think that there'll be enough groundswell within the context of the Democratic Party to embrace the kinds of progressive visions for the kinds of opportunity?”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm an organizer. And so having that mindset and bringing that into the wholes of power has allowed me to not forget who I work for, where I came from, what it felt like to And now that I am there, that's the only way I can see myself. And if we think about what Martha Luther King was fighting for and how he transformed, you know, even his messaging after the civil rights battle was won was to speak about there is no good at, right? Like having equality when he said, what is it to have a seat at the counter if you can buy the burger is to understand that I don't just want you to see me as equal. I also want you to see me as deserving of equal opportunity and prosperity and everything that is part of the promise of America.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Illinois are the worst three states for black people to live. And that's not because the people in power haven't done the work of trying to reform these systems is that the systems themselves didn't imagine people like us living here and didn't create systems to fully allow us to exist as ourselves, fully equal to everyone else. And so you will see the disparities because the systems aren't designed to educate our children. The systems aren't designed to create economic investment in our communities. And the kind of transformation that is needed is asking of people To do something that they haven't done before. And there is fear amongst many because their way of life feels threatened when you are asking for them to expand their thought process and to reimagine a system where everybody's way of life is protected and uplifted.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, we are seeking to have equal access to systems that were created without us in mind. And so it doesn't really matter the amount of reforms we carry on if the whole system is sort of designed to not grant you access to opportunity and prosperity, access to your civil liberties, access to your full humanity, access to dignity. And it is for a lot of people, but it's also one of the worst states for black people to live in. Every single study has shown that Minnesota, Wisconsin,”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“strengthening our communities. We have an invested in strengthening our democracy. We haven't invested in making a representative democracy actually represent its people. And we haven't invested in having the mechanisms to allow for government to be of the people and for the people. And so now do we not only have fascism at our doorsteps, but we also have a system that is for the first time, I would say, in the open, sort of wrapping the American people. And, you know, every single day somebody says, why can't you hold him accountable? Why isn't this administration accountable? And we can't because we haven't really invested in strengthening our accountability measures to stop something. From exploiting them.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In dividing our nation and not uniting it. And I said, you know, my dad would have told him to seek help. Because I think to many of us, we continue to be stuck in this moment where we're analyzing this situation from a decency point of view, right? Like how did we get here? How would our country, our fellow countrymen and women would allow someone like this president to come to power? There isn't that much to analyze. We haven't invested in”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“to come to power. And, you know, I was reminiscing about my arrival here in the United States. And I was thinking about how my father would have reacted if someone told him that someday we would have a president unhinged enough to use his daughter's name in every rally and conversation to stir up hate. But that also the American people would vote for someone who would not only neglect to fully address a public health crisis, address an economic crisis that's bringing on devastation onto people, for people and sort of thriving.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, we have to remember, right, that we didn't arrive in this moment by accident. Everything that we are living through and, you know, thinking of as a painful moment in our history was ushered in by decades of social and economic neglect, by systems that weren't designed for many of us to not survive and thrive.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're all holding on, you know, I represent a district that includes all of Minneapolis and 14 other surrounding municipalities. And as many of you know, Minneapolis has been ground zero for the response our communities have had to please brutality after the murder of George Floyd in the hands of the Minneapolis police. helping each other through not just the pandemic, but the financial crisis and now dealing with systematic racism and police brutality. Yeah.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What we are mobilizing for right now isn't just to sustain the house and win the Senate and get the White House, but it's to keep up the momentum on the ground because we're going to need an organized electorate in order to have sustainable change.”
2020-10-31 · Intelligence Squared · BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source