WASHINGTON, D.C. - While at a conference this week, Representative Ilhan Omar seemed taken aback by a question she received from an audience member, responding quite angrily to it. The question was "Do you own a ferret?", a question Omar refused to answer, instead launching into a diatribe on the discrimination she often faces.

"I'm disgusted you would ask me something like that," Omar said. "You see a woman with my skin color, wearing a hijab, and with some sort of shirt expressing love of ferrets, and based on my appearance you ask me such a question. This is the racism I deal with daily."

Omar was referring to the shirt she was wearing at the event and had often been seeing wearing at other times, a white t-shirt with the word "I", a red heart, and "Ferrets" on it. She seemed to think

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