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How Demonizing Ilhan Omar Validates White Supremacy As America’s Most Valuable Currency

The White House and Fox News are guilty of Islamophobia

Ezinne Ukoha
9 min readMar 12, 2019

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The United States is a shithole country.

President Trump believes that shitty nations are the ones that showcase Black and Brown citizens, under ruthless regimes, with the infusion of bribery and corruption, and constant state of lawlessness that institutes the climate of societal dysfunction at the expense of the vulnerable who are dangerously expendable.

That sounds a lot like the the current state of affairs in a nation that used to be the endearing demonstration of avid diplomacy, and practiced solidarity in times of global strife, that stems from tragedies that unite all corners of the earth in the unspeakable grief, that humanizes through the comforting shield of a former “world police.”

But those years are long gone.

What remains is the hard shell of discontentment that hovers over the disabled cords of authoritativeness, that has repurposed America into the lone realm of gross negligence, that is spurned by the mechanisms of White nationalism, that was birthed from the creed of the GOP.

Non-White Americans are in a lot of trouble.

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