One thing that should be clear is that second-generation ciyaal suuq shouldn’t give their two cents in supposed clan conflicts.
Anyone trying to make this a Hawiye vs. Darod fight is absolutely delusional. It was an alliance of Ilkacase (an OG), a scorned ex-husband, and some fobs stirring the pot as they live and breathe for TikTok clan fights.
Anyone trying to frame this as “Omar Fateh got mass-boycotted” just wants clicks and brownie points for being a good human who says tribalism is bad.
It also undermines any constructive feedback by explaining away Omar Fateh’s lackluster campaign as “just tribalism,” when in reality, the votes he lost due to explicit tribalism didn’t even cross close to the thousands, meanwhile he’s multiple tens of thousands behind Jacob Frey.
What happened post campaign is once again Somalis wanting to embarrass themselves, during the campaign by even starting this dumb fights and after the campaign airing it out into public about how like twenty Somalis backing Frey means were having 1990s style conflicts.
Like the child marriage law, to the Chunk spat now, its like people have an almost fetishistic desire to give outsiders ammo to insult us.
⚡️- A significant number of Somalians in Minneapolis didn't vote for ethnic Somali Mayoral candidate Omar Fateh due to Fateh being part of the Daarood clan rather than the Hawiye. These deep seeded clan wars allowed Mayor Jacob Frey to rally key community leaders from the Hawiye clan to hold off a challenge from Fateh.
