.IlhanMN: “I believe if you want to make change, we have to be as bold as we can. We don’t fight for a seat at the table just to keep it warm. We fight for a seat at the table to actively use that seat”
Illustration: Lauren Tamaki Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar is the first Somali-American member of Congress and the first woman of color to hold elected office in Minnesota. Since winning her seat in 2018, Omar has bucked the Democratic establishment as an outspoken progressive and has been targeted by Donald Trump for publicly denouncing his child-separation policy, his ban on Muslim immigration, and his equivocation on white-supremacist violence in the U.S.
Omar lives in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., with her husband and their four children. She recently published This Is What America Looks Like, a memoir. Here’s how she gets it done: Omar spoke with the Cut before the death of her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, on June 15 due to complications from the coronavirus. In a press release, she wrote, “No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew him.”I’m mostly in Minneapolis right now. Traveling feels really scary, and my three children live at home, all school-aged: a junior, an eighth-grader, and a second-grader. I’m up much earlier than them; my day starts with morning prayers.
I had been represented by a woman who was in office for nearly 44 years, and I’d been involved in the search for a candidate who could unseat her. At first, I hesitated running, because I didn’t really believe that activists like myself could run. But I eventually realized that representation was about being fluent in the day-to-day struggles of the people you seek to represent.Isra, my oldest, had political aspirations before I had political aspirations.
Fear can be a debilitating thing, but it can also be a very liberating thing. It can fuel you to be courageous. For someone who’s been through a lot and come really close to losing her life many a time, I have really been a person who is very centered in the today. There is an urgency in recognizing that our time is limited.
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