Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) shared photos of herself and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) together in Ghana on Thursday, using the opportunity to fire back at President Donald Trump’s recent racist remarks against congresswomen of color.
Pelosi “didn’t just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me,” Omar, who was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen as a teenager, tweeted with photos of the two of them at the Door of No Return, a site in the Ghanian city Elmina where many Africans enslaved by Westerners had their final glimpse of home.
Omar’s comment is a jab at Trump’s recent inflammatory comments that some congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.” It was a thinly veiled attack on Omar and three other high-profile lawmakers who won election last November ― Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
Source: Ilhan Omar And Nancy Pelosi Visit Ghana Together After ‘Send Her Back’ Chants
