Omar Fateh wins DFL endorsement for mayor on first round.

[zeilaprime]

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[Riftvalley]

@zeilaprime , most won’t admit it, but the gangsta rap music transitioned from music to a lifestyle expression for many young black males.

 

[zeilaprime]

@zeilaprime , most won’t admit it, but the gangsta rap music transitioned from music to a lifestyle expression for many young black males.

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[_Yusuf_]

I am sending my congratulations to the Warsangeli community of Minneapolis

 

[Midas]

Its because we're very active socially both online (this however can sometimes be a bad thing with dumbass trolls on tiktok for example turning people against us) and in-person especially in Muslim majority areas. And when its time for business, we just keep to ourselves, focus, accomplish our goals and continue reaching new heights in terms of achievements.

When you combine these two characteristics, people will eventually start noticing and some (especially the racists) will see it as a threat because they cannot compete or stop us so it looks like we're trying to takeover so instead they resort to complaining online and hope someone magically stops us dead in our tracks. Its the same complaints we get in Kenya. We're just unique like that I guess.

When you also add the fact that of the 100k somalis in minnesota about half are under 18 . And another maybe 10-20 thosuand are the somali elderly. You realize how much heavy lifting the adult working age somali pouplation is doing.

 

[Idilinaa]

Good on him. If he wins I hope he will improve the city


These racists are whackos. With the way they talk about Somali Americans you would think Somali inhabited towns would be crime ridden or destitute. But from what I can glean on, Minneapolis is a decent enough American city in terms of wages, housing and education. Like what is so despicable of Minneapolis, Maine and othe Somali inhabited towns? They aren't anything like Detroit or Chicago.

Somali neighborhoods in Minneapolis actually operate more like self-sustaining villages.

Go inside 'Little Mogadishu,' the Somali capital of America

In her makeup studio in the heart of the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Sumaya Keynan painted a metallic shade onto a customer’s eyelids on a recent Saturday evening.

www.hiiraan.com

Separated from the rest of Minneapolis by the Mississippi River and two freeways, the neighborhood operates like a self-sustaining village. “That’s allowed it to develop on its own and retain its character,” said Michael Tolan, of the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota.

“The Somali community is self-sustaining. They do not need to interact with other communities because they live, work and play in neighbourhoods that are almost 100% Somali,” he said, adding that it was difficult for young Somalis to get decent employment outside their community.

They don't become unsafe or crime infested neighborhoods because Somalis build businesses and create economic oppurtunities for themselves, employ their own and support eachother.

We don't have to rob or steal from others to survive, they can just depend on the community.

This is why when Somalis moved to Maine the crime levels dropped, income soured and business activity increased.

Lewiston, Maine, Revived by Somali Immigrants​

Lewiston, Maine, Revived by Somali Immigrants

A dying Maine mill town gets a fresh burst of energy.

www.newsweek.com

Barely a decade ago, Lewiston, Maine, was dying. The once bustling mill town's population had been shrinking since the 1970s; most jobs had vanished long before, and residents (those who hadn't already fled) called the decaying center of town "the combat zone." That was before a family of Somali refugees discovered Lewiston in 2001 and began spreading the word to immigrant friends and relatives that housing was cheap and it looked like a good place to build new lives and raise children in peace. Since then, the place has been transformed. Per capita income has soared, and crime rates have dropped. In 2004, Inc. magazine named Lewiston one of the best places to do business in America, and in 2007, it was named an "All-America City" by the National Civic League, the first time any town in Maine had received that honor in roughly 40 years. "No one could have dreamed this," says Chip Morrison, the local Chamber of Commerce president. "Not even me, and I'm an optimist."

The center of town still has pawnbrokers and bars, but now there are also shops with names like Mogadishu and Baracka, with signs advertising halal foods and selling headscarves and prepaid African phone cards. "Generally, refugees or migrants that come into a town give a new injection of energy," says Karen Jacobsen, director of the Forced Migration Program at Tufts University's Feinstein International Famine Center. "Somalis particularly. They have a very good network [with strong] trading links, and new economic activities they bring with them." Retailers sell clothes and spices imported from Africa; other entrepreneurs have launched restaurants and small businesses providing translation services, in-home care for the elderly and other social services. There's even a business consultant.

Some of the exact areas Somalis even settled into used to be crime ridden but then they became crime free.

This is just the teeniest little part of what has happened to the city," says the center's coordinator, Anne Kemper. "Everybody has had to scramble." Today, Somali women and children in donated winter parkas carefully navigate the snowbanks in the town's formerly crime-ridden low-income residential area.

The crime rates have just been going down steadily in the city since their very arrival.

 

[reggie]

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[Saleh]

Great news. I hope he wins just so I can witness the far-right meltdown

 

[Sigmundd]

Omar looks good here they just posted a bad picture of him. He looks better than 99 percent of any politicians now.

 

[reggie]

Omar looks good here they just posted a bad picture of him. He looks better than 99 percent of any politicians now.
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I agree deliberately took the screenshot of him speaking

 

[Sigmundd]

I agree deliberately took the screenshot of him speaking
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Mashallah

 

[Zak12]

@Idilinaa right wingers have been in an uproar over this clip and use it to criticise him lol

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1945586741840105853?t=Sb7wah9hOQzgIU9TXFUhFA&s=19