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The feud between Carl Tuckerson and Ilhan Omar is heating up these days. Tucker Carlson had made a racially loaded attack on her live on air. Omar had responded by calling him a “racist fool” and rebuked Fox News and their advertisers for giving him "nightly platform for white supremacist rhetoric."
Carl Tuckerson has responded by blasting congresswoman Omar for not being a grateful colored woman for being allowed to immigrate to the US as a child from Somalia, and not knowing her place:
Omar has responded: “Not gonna lie, it’s kinda fun watching a racist fool like this weeping about my presence in Congress. No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect. They will just have to get used to calling me congresswoman!”
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Where do you stand on all this? Does the fact that she was allowed asylum in this country mean she should just be quiet and take racist attacks on her like someone who should know her place? Does criticizing our country and wanting to align its actions more with its stated ideals mean she hates our country? Did abolitionists who pointed out the hypocrisy of slave-holding while espousing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and attempting to change it mean they hated the country and were out to destroy it?
Carl Tuckerson has responded by blasting congresswoman Omar for not being a grateful colored woman for being allowed to immigrate to the US as a child from Somalia, and not knowing her place:
"Our country rescued Ilhan Omar from the single worst place on earth, we didn't do it to get rich, in fact it cost us money. We did it because we are kind people. How did Ilhan Omar respond to the remarkable gift we gave her? She scolded us and called us names. She showed us contempt. It's infuriating but more than that, it's also ominous.
Omar may be from another country but she learned young that crying racism pays. The bigger question is, who taught her that? She didn't arrive from a Kenyan refugee camp announcing people as bigots for a political campaign. She wasn't always a professional victim. That is learned behavior.
In some ways, the real villain in the Ilhan Omar story isn't Omar, it is a group of our fellow Americans. Our cultural gatekeepers who stoke the resentment of new arrivals and turn them into grievance mongers like Ilhan Omar. The left did that to her, and to us. Blame them first."
-Carl Tuckerson
Omar has responded: “Not gonna lie, it’s kinda fun watching a racist fool like this weeping about my presence in Congress. No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect. They will just have to get used to calling me congresswoman!”
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Where do you stand on all this? Does the fact that she was allowed asylum in this country mean she should just be quiet and take racist attacks on her like someone who should know her place? Does criticizing our country and wanting to align its actions more with its stated ideals mean she hates our country? Did abolitionists who pointed out the hypocrisy of slave-holding while espousing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and attempting to change it mean they hated the country and were out to destroy it?