(Hill) Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) said in a tweet on Tuesday that the “hardest part of serving in Congress” as a woman of color and one of the first Muslim women to serve is that “people hear you differently.”
“No matter how much we take on the hate & stay true to who we are through our experiences, our voices are shushed and reduced,” she wrote. “We aren’t perfect, but neither is the institution.”
Tlaib didn’t write about what triggered her tweet, but it follows a storm of controversy on Monday surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the other Muslim woman elected to Congress last fall. Tlaib and Omar are the first Muslim women to serve in Congress.
