NYT: Check out all these racists in Minnesota

[Chris-]

https://nyti.ms/2WVTQY0

 

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“I think of America, the great assimilator, as a rubber band, but with this — we’re at the breaking point,” Ms. Crockett said. “These aren’t people coming from Norway, let’s put it that way. These people are very visible.”

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The refugees are “not leaving,” Mr. Brandmire said.

“They’re becoming American citizens. And they have every right to, but this is killing us,” he continued. “This is the Hatfields and McCoys.”

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One woman, who declined to give her name after the group discussion, bemoaned the city’s so-called no-go zones, or the areas where white residents said they felt so uncomfortable with the Somali-American presence that they would not return — a shopping mall, a community housing center and Beaver Island Trail, a hiking area that borders the Mississippi River.

 

“They were just —” she said, searching for the words to describe the offending behavior of the Somali-Americans. “They were just walking around.”

 

[Jason]

Oh boy, Midwestern racists in diners, my favorite news genre! 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Midwestern whites are more racist than southern whites change my mind

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Midwestern whites are more racist than southern whites change my mind

It definitely has a different flavor to it.

[SaysWho?]

People are forgetting how many progressive whites are in the upper midwest. Minnesota and Wisconsin especially have long histories in that department.

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

People are forgetting how many progressive whites are in the upper midwest. Minnesota and Wisconsin especially have long histories in that department.

 

They can show up at these diners if they want to get covered.

[Joe]

The Somali projects are definitely jarring when you see them in Minneapolis. 22 year old me was scared shitless the first time I passed. In short time, I was eating in Somali restaurants tho lol.

[skillzdadirecta]

1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Midwestern whites are more racist than southern whites change my mind

 

They definitely have less encounters with non-whites than Southerners. 

[TheGreatGamble]

5 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Midwestern whites are more racist than southern whites change my mind

The south is racist but has a long history of PoC’s living there. Half the people in the Midwest have only seen black people on tv, and even then probably thought it was color correction problems 

[johnny]

My cousins grew up in rural Minnesota and there just were not minorities. They had a Spanish class at their high school taught by a white Lady that didn’t really know Spanish lmao. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I'm going to give a different perspective.

 

When I first moved to the United States, I wondered why there were so many white people.

[Bloodporne]

I mean, who else but descendants of Scandinavians and shit would even naturally go "hmmm yeah Minnesota winters...this works!".

[Link200]

You are going to find stupid people everywhere. In some places they just happen to be more common than others.