Somali Dad Stands Up for Autistic Child After White Woman Hurls Slurs in Rochester, MN
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Too late. We’re an isolated group who don’t even support one another.
We don’t need madows but im just saying a lot of this unwanted attention could’ve been avoided if our people knew how to behave online. Then, quietly Somalis could’ve created new positive stereotypes for themselves as our country developed.
But no we have a loud community with attention seekers who either make self deprecating jokes or spends hours at a time on tiktok lives insulting qabils and interracial couples. Sad because we have such a beautiful culture and country
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Fobs have dhiig unlike you low testosterone dadaans
If our country improves and Somalis are wealthy, wallahi all of this hate would just be white noise. We’d be able to go back. It would not matter what a single cadaan or madow has to say. The self deprecators would probably stop being idiots online too.
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You can dress this bad take as much as you want, but if you tell Somali kids they're black as a first identity, they will become more black, as in their expression and their values mirror African Americans, more so than Somali. You cannot have this on-and-off switch. By the way, the other stuff about negativity is an obsfuscation. No one here talks about acting negatively and this notion that Somalis universailly is seen as a problem is just bullshit that only lives on the internet. You should touch grass. Somalis get along with other people, be it Africans or whatever, and we find ourselves in cosmopolitan places. Life is not a twitter thread, so spare me the emotional dweeb nonsense. It gets old and repetitive, at least pretend you spent your childhood outside and not on social media bubbles.
To blend in, you have to remove what is Somali, otherwise, people will always pick you out. In that process, you change identity. That is not a reversible thing. By the way, Black is not an ethnicity. The "Black" identity in America is African American ethnic identity, and we can never be that regardless. People from Africa who are not Bantu or West African consider the black thing as most tertiary, and the overwhelming Somalis don't deny it in the streets in a social setting. But that is not an identity but more so solidarity outside our identity, which is nice but not primal to who we are. You have to learn to weigh what this means.
Whoever changes their identity to be less visible and caters to other identities over their own is a self-hater. That is the definition. You can pretend it is practical, but it is what it is. People only f*ck with weak peoples and we're not more vurnerable than others. Stop painting us as weak just because your mind is.
Besides, you're naive if your black flag-waving will have people not distinguish you as soon as negativity comes your way. They will instantly say, "She says she's black, but she is Somalian." That is the reality. I have seen this before. People who want to hate will find reasons, and we look too distinct, and are distinct. That is a fact. People can either like us for what and who we are otherwise they can f*ck off. The far majority of people, and I mean 98% are cool.
If some African homie says, we're black, I say, sure. It's not that deep because it is nothing more than convenient solidarity. It does not mean I am what they are. That does not mean we're one people other than the in-situ thing. At the end of the day, I don't play their cultural flutes, and they have never eaten camel meat. So let's get real and not make it bigger than what it is. We can come together and say we're "black" in ways that are instrumental, constructivist, and pragmatic in the West because there are commonalities in certain social conditions, but we're not the same people.
I've faced racism, and so have other African people. Are we the same people? No. Does that mean we can't work together and recognize that fighting common challenges, banding for those frontier goals, if we face challenges with the dominant cultures of the host countries? Of course not. We can, and that still does not make us one, generally. Perhaps one in that cause, in that goal, in that moment. But that itself does not define my ethnic identity. Any people that does not respect you until you assimilate with them do not respect you at all. That is why I don't rock with pan-Africanism.
Does that make me less African or hostile to other cultures? f*ck no. I probably have the most African and the most diverse friends in this forum. People on this forum who have this conversation are extremely one-track-minded. Any conversation about identity that does not come with nuance is ideology. "Oh, you don't consider yourself black, you must think you're white." I don't have time for that stupidity. I am more closer to a black person than a white person in many things in general, but an African American and a White American are in one cultural group, while I am distinct from both. They're both Western people. I am not. And what makes me closer to an African American than a White American likely has little to do with culture. We're generalizing here, I rock with cool people no matter where they are from.
At the end of the day, I am about values. If some guy is a Western liberal, we have less in common than some other person who shares more values with me. I rock with the latter more. This means if you're a Westernized liberal woman who happens to be Somali, I might rock with anybody but you. Skinfolk are not always kinfolk to me.
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Well put. These fobs are a major liability. At least speak proper English before you start recording
He’s ethiopian lol.
Exactly we got a lot of support from many black people, we have many loud xoolos who scream they are not black every time they get a chance.
Ok Mr model citizen they won’t choose you, this dad was defending his son who happens to be autistic and was called racial slurs , but you are more worried about the image of Somalis despite this cadaans whom you want to be close to wouldn’t spit on you if you were burning.
This is pathetic. Where did you losers come from?
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Just because he got his case dismissed doesn't mean much. Plenty of guilty people get their cases dismissed simply because there wasn't any evidence to convict them.
Defense attorneys get easy wins on weekly basis with all these case dismissals.
You ain't see jayoma law firm trending on tiktok last year? Buddy is keeping the streets dangerous
Never would i expect people to slander a father for exposing a abusing his disabled 5 year old son.
That rape case fucked up everything for him
. I'm legit not trying to slander the guy at all. He did the right thing.Good grief some of you are drama queens. If the Black Hawk Down incident, 9/11, and piracy couldn't put a major target in the back of Somali Americans then this irrelevant spat with a trailer trash women won't. This will be forgotten in a month for the next outrage in this continually polarized country.
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it always seems like a lot is going on
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