We talked to xoamani about taking her skills from media powerhouse muslimgirl to the national stage with a congressional run in New Jersey
that their white counterparts are not — and that is echoed by the ways systems tend to fail minority groups first. Is there anything that you think Rep. Pallone has done — both right and wrong — by minority communities in particular?I personally don't think that the current representative has spoken to minority communities for the majority, if not the entirety of his political career.
When I started Muslim Girl, I did so in the hopes that maybe if we had a space for us to reclaim that narrative on our own terms, then we can potentially shift public opinion in a way that will make people more informed, that will increase tolerance, that will build bridges between communities that might otherwise have not had that bridge built between them, in a way that could eventually impactpolicies that are directly geared towards our community.
MTV News: You're already making history as the first Muslim woman to run for Congress in New Jersey. How does it feel to be that boundary breaker? What are your thoughts on the fact that it's 2020 and those barriers still need to be broken?That's literally what my first reaction was when they told me that I was the first Muslim woman to ever run for federal office in New Jersey. I'm like,"Are you kidding me?" It's 2020, I didn't even believe it at first.
Our campaign has also been directly impacted by COVID-19. Our campaign manager was hospitalized and tested for coronavirus. He had to take a step back away from the campaign that he's worked so hard on. It really underscored just why I'm even running in the first place. As difficult as it's been, it's forced us to think very innovatively about what a political campaign in the 21st century looks like.
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