A woman from Connecticut tried to lecture Minnesotans on who Minnesotans are, and it wasn't received well.
Far-right political commentator Laura Ingraham, the host of the far-right Fox News program The Ingraham Angle who grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut, openly criticized U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who was born in Somalia and immigrated to the United States when she was 12 years old, for the way that she talks:
Here's how Omar responded to Ingraham's remarks:
On Thursday’s episode of her show — which became a podcast earlier this month — Ingraham mocked the accent of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who couldn’t speak English when she came to the U.S. at the age of 12 after living in a refugee camp during Somalia’s civil war.Spoiler alert...not everyone from the Upper Midwest sounds like Amy Klobuchar. I don't sound like what a lot of people would consider a typical Illinoisan, so I'm not going to criticize Omar or anyone else for the way they speak the English language. Also, for Ingraham to lecture people in a part of the country that she's not from on who they are is, to put it mildly, absolutely inconsiderate.
Ingraham claimed that one of the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress “sounds like Rizzo on Grease” and “doesn’t sound like Minnesota.”
Here's how Omar responded to Ingraham's remarks:
🤣 Who knew sounding like Rizzo from GREESE was a crime.— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 20, 2019
FYI, here in MN our “accents” aren’t what makes us Minnesotans, it’s our warm and welcoming hearts that do.
Which @IngrahamAngle would know nothing about! https://t.co/UmIw8nlgym
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