Squee, you guys! Let’s hear it for Girl Power! None other than the illustrious Angela Davis is proud to #StandWithIlhan:
"I am extremely proud that finally we've elected someone to Congress who speaks out … on behalf of all people who are oppressed," says Angela Davis of Congressmember Ilhan Omar. She adds, "I'm also quite afraid for her. We know she has received many death threats." pic.twitter.com/flJsDeUVug
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) April 30, 2019
Isn’t that special? Ilhan Omar certainly thinks so. She retweeted it and everything:
And as if that weren’t inspiring enough, Davis also took part in a pro-Ilhan-Omar rally:
“We’re here to defend the right of Black people to speak about what happens in this country, and we are here to stand with Ilhan Omar and other progressive women. We want the GOP and 45 to back off and we want the Democrats to step up.”- @BarbaraRansby on why we#StandWithIlhan pic.twitter.com/jDtoRbf7dW
— ColorOfChange.org (@ColorOfChange) April 30, 2019
I stand with my sister @IlhanMN #blackwomenlead https://t.co/yA4z5jTiyd
— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) April 30, 2019
.@IlhanMN: I can’t speak out against islamophobia without also speaking out against anti-semitism, referenced synagogue shooting in San Diego. Standing alongside Angela Davis and @RepPressley at rally for “Black Women in Defense of Ilhan Omar” pic.twitter.com/aMV2ub4FNp
— Akela Lacy (@akela_lacy) April 30, 2019
Just warms the cockles of our hearts.
Angela Davis, Ayanna Pressley lead rally in support of Ilhan Omar https://t.co/oj1SW4uyUG pic.twitter.com/9t1sJWdcw5
— The Hill (@thehill) April 30, 2019
More from the Hill:
Activist Angela Davis and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) joined numerous other black women activists and members of Congress in a rally Tuesday to support Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
Davis and Barbara Ransby, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and adviser to the Movement for Black Lives, told Democracy Now they planned the event, called Black Women in Defense of Ilhan Omar, in response to escalating attacks against the freshman Democrat, who said death threats against her spiked after conservatives accused her of minimizing the 9/11 attacks and President Trump tweeted a video interspersing her words with images from the attacks.
Trump, Davis said, “uses this bizarre logic of fungibility, where one Muslim represents the worst—or all Muslims, rather, represent the worst deeds that any Muslim has ever conducted,” a logical process she said was “at the heart of racism.”
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What an honor to be celebrated by an “activist” like Angela Davis!
Angela Davis, the literal terrorist? https://t.co/ORO3KircjA
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) April 30, 2019
Activist, terrorist … tomayto, tomahto.
Woman Who Liked the Soviets and Jim Jones Says Ilhan Omar Is Cool
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) April 30, 2019
She’s just some woman who did something.
Was David Duke there? pic.twitter.com/mRA8azrpqe
— AtticusLee (@AtticusLee6) April 30, 2019
Not that we know of, but we’re sure he was admiring the spectacle from afar.
Kind of curious/astonishing that you neglect to mention that Angela Davis purchased weapons that were used to literally murder a judge. She is a radical, rabid anti-Semite and has no place in the public discourse.
— ascharf18 (@ascharf18) April 30, 2019
This is like Richard Spencer leading a rally for Steve King.
Same thing. You should form your opinion accordingly. https://t.co/ZL6WpX2qaM
— Extremely Unfriendly Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) April 30, 2019
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