Ilhan Omar
Auteur van This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
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Ilhan Omar is the first Somali American legislator in the United States and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, as well as the first woman of color to serve as U.S. representative from Minnesota.
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I found a memoir written by her with the aid of Rebecca Paley of her journey a child growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia. She was young when her mother died, that she has no memory of her. Smallest of the family, she got into trouble for fighting a bully much bigger than herself who was harrassing a boy bigger than her. She, a preschooler told the bully to meet her outside after school!. Pulling the bully down and rubbing his face in the sand, she was filled with anger at the bully who made a vulgar remark about the bigger boy’s. She knew that people need to revere their mothers, not say horrible things about them. A crowd gathered and her eight grade brother was shocked to see what she was doing in the middle of the crowd. Her father’s response was to laugh. Nobody should be coming to my house complaining about my smallest baby.
Ilhad had to make a temporary break from her family, her life was so prescribed by her family, the Somalia refugee group, actually byeveryone that she knee. Taking her children to North Dakota to study nutrition and finding what her true self was. A painful break but a needed one and it took resolution and determination.
Read the book for more details and what lead her to be a congresswoman. I am deeply impressed by her and urge you read this book.… (meer)