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'Long-simmering' tension at South High leads to 'all-out brawl'
MinnPost ^ | 2/15/13 | Brian Lambert

Posted on 02/15/2013 5:40:09 AM PST by crosshairs

That “all-out brawl” at South High in Minneapolis got coverage from virtually every local outlet. At WCCO-TV, Esme Murphy reports: “Twelve people complained that they had been sprayed with mace. Police at the scene said they had to use chemical agent to get the crowd under control as they were being pelted with objects as they tried to break things up. … [One student] said the fights were over pride. ‘I know it’s a pride thing between Muslims and black people,’ she said. ‘They want their pride back for something. I don’t know.’ She also said ‘boys were hitting girls’ and that some people were lying on the floor, with their hands over their heads, in surrender.… The fight, students say, was the result of long-simmering tensions between the 8 percent of students who are Somali Americans and the 20 percent who are African Americans.”

The Strib story, by Paul Walsh and Kelly Smith, says, “Guled Omar, a senior, said he was sitting in the cafeteria when the outburst began after a boy hit a girl. ‘I don't feel safe here,’ Omar said. ‘This is something that has been going on’ for at least two years, he said. ‘I don't know if it's because we're minorities of the newest immigrant group,’ Omar added, saying he has complained to the principal and the School District.”

KSTP-TV’s story, reported by Joe Mazan, says: “Classes will be in session Friday, the district said Thursday evening. The school will implement a safety plan ‘to ensure that there is support for a safe learning environment.’ Additional counselors and support staff will be on hand. The school will operate under a ‘code yellow’ Friday. Students will remain in their classrooms during class periods and access in and out of the building will be limited. The school will be on its normal schedule.”


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; africans; aliens; brawl; diversity; immigration; islam; muslim; muslims; race; riot; rop; somali; somaliamericans
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To: kearnyirish2

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. The result of more “liberal” policies to “make things better”. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.


61 posted on 02/15/2013 7:12:55 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: apillar
The fight, students say, was the result of long-simmering tensions between the 8 percent of students who are Somali Americans and the 20 percent who are African Americans.”

They are probably just making excuses to protect the real perps: Lutheran kids who moved here from the Lake Wobegon area.

62 posted on 02/15/2013 7:14:31 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: dennisw
I’ll bet part of the animosity/hatred has to do with Somalis getting to jump the line for public subsidized housing over the native born blacks. Due to Somalis refugee status. I saw an instance where Haitians were getting in ahead of native blacks

Plus the Muslims will not tolerate non-Muslims going after Muslim girls, while seeing non-Muslim girls as "fair game".

I think this was the real issue, judging from the thing that actually triggered the riot being a boy on one side hitting a girl from the other side (and they don't say who was on who's side)

63 posted on 02/15/2013 7:17:41 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: hal ogen

“The result of more “liberal” policies to “make things better”.”

The situation in Minnesota is mild compared to what is happening in former black neighborhoods in American cities everywhere else; they are losing a low-profile race war to Hispanics in which their opponents receive thousands of reinforcements daily while their own numbers (like those of whites) slowly peter out...


64 posted on 02/15/2013 7:18:59 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: RadiationRomeo; MrB; Graybeard58

There’s a general divergence between American blacks and African or Caribbean immigrants, who tend to want to work and improve themselves. (Generalizations, of course.)

However, there are exceptions. Somalis come in two basic varieties, “Somali Bantu” and “ethnic Somali.” The Bantu are the working people of Somalia, often slaves or near as makes no difference. In the US, although it is difficult for them to adjust from their extremely primitive origins, they tend to be hardworking, pursue education diligently (if not brilliantly), and so on.

Ethnic Somali, however, have a cultural prejudice against work. Work is for slaves. “Real Somalis” fight and steal, or lie around and chew qat. They do not work, they do not learn, they do not produce. In some ways, they are similar to Haitians, who, for different cultural reasons, do not have a culture of work, education, and productivity, and so tend to become dependents, criminals, and generally harmful residents of the U.S.

One might say, allowing for individual outliers of course, that Somalis are the “African-Americans” of Africa, and Haitians are the “African-Americans” of the Caribbean, making the journalist’s confusion over physical vs. cultural geography even more ironic.


65 posted on 02/15/2013 7:20:21 AM PST by Tax-chick (Oh, what's the point?)
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To: PapaBear3625

Somalis are really big on running your own business. They run a lot of convenience stores.....which get robbed.


66 posted on 02/15/2013 7:21:41 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: kearnyirish2
The government put them into what must seem to be the most God-forsaken place for East Africans; Minnesota has some of the lowest temps in the lower 48 states.

Wrong! The Somalis were assigned to the United States by the United Nations. We were stupid enough to comply. They carefully researched which states had the most generous welfare programs and picked Minnesota and Maine.

In addition, the ELCA (ever more concerned with political correctness than Christianity) sponsored many of them in Minnesota because the ELCA is concentrated in Minnesota.

BTW, you find few Somalis in the coldest parts of Minnesota such as Baudette, International Falls, Two Harbors, etc. They are almost entirely concentrated in the cities, especially Minneapolis-St. Paul. There is a reason for this: more taxpayer teat to suckle.

67 posted on 02/15/2013 7:22:12 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Tax-chick

That “work is for slaves” or “work is beneath me” ethic is prevalent among the Arabs as well.


68 posted on 02/15/2013 7:23:06 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

Yes, there’s quite a bit of similarity, although of course Arabs and Somalis hate each other almost as much as they hate feuding factions in their own ethnic group.


69 posted on 02/15/2013 7:28:27 AM PST by Tax-chick (Oh, what's the point?)
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To: ladyjane
sk the Black Caucus what they were thinking when they demanded it. Who knows why they chose Minnesota and Maine? Neither location makes sense.

Yes, they do. Both states are excessively white and vote Dem. They want to make sure they STAY voting Dem.

70 posted on 02/15/2013 7:29:00 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I’ll tell you this from experience.

An African dropping the N word on an African-American is an instant fight. I saw it in an office once. African see themselves as superior and American blacks as criminals. American blacks know it and don’t like it.

Irony: The African was engaged in prostitution which is accepted in parts of Africa. Hence the AIDS issue. She wasn’t street walking. She just went on “dates” for money.


71 posted on 02/15/2013 7:29:20 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: ladyjane; Tax-chick
Neither location makes sense.

See my post #67 and Tax-chick's post #65. She also has it right. The first Somalis imported into the country were actually the ethnic Bantu. Nice people and hard workers for the most part. I actually remember television specials from the 1990s about some of them walking two and three miles one way to get to their jobs.

Unfortunately, the leftist media complex used them to pave the road for "real Somalis" who, unfortunately, make up most of the Somali community today.

A late 1940s equivalent would be allowing Jews and other victims of nazis into the country as a limited humanitarian gesture, then importing waves of nazis in their wake.

72 posted on 02/15/2013 7:34:10 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: crosshairs

The Somalis were given refugee status. Too bad they weren’t given a little lesson in gratitude toward their host country.
We are not nearly careful enough about who we allow to immigrate here. Sometimes you can’t take the uncivil out of cultures.


73 posted on 02/15/2013 7:37:54 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: jiggyboy

I knew a very PC young man who insistently referred to a black figure skater from France as, “An African-American French Girl.”

No amount of correcting him would get him to wake up.


74 posted on 02/15/2013 7:38:25 AM PST by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: Rannug
One can call a spade a spade or one can call it an ef shove. Please not Amish tho Thank you

I don't think JimRob or the Mods would appreciate our calling them spades.

75 posted on 02/15/2013 7:40:20 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: txrefugee

“The Somalis will never integrate into our society. The government was really stupid for letting them come into the country.”

The govt didn’t just ‘let them come’...they brought them here and paid them to be here. It was all part of an effort by USAID, who is run by really bad presidential appointees, like Mrs. GROVER NORQUIST, who is a muslim and was a Bush appointee.


76 posted on 02/15/2013 7:40:59 AM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: MrB

In England it was discovered that their gov’t did just that very thing, it was planned.


77 posted on 02/15/2013 7:41:32 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Wordkraft

It’s amazing the knots that leftists have to twist themselves into in order to maintain a worldview based on untruth and unreality.


78 posted on 02/15/2013 7:42:34 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
That “work is for slaves” or “work is beneath me” ethic is prevalent among the Arabs as well.

You are correct. Roughly 90% of all work in Saudi Arabia is done by immigrants. The 10% tend to be the bosses, owners, inspectors, enforcers and visa stampers. A poor Saudi might hire a house boy or maid from among the Palestinians or Yemenis. A middle class Saudi will pick them from India or Bangladesh. A rich one wants them from Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines.

Just another one of the fruits of Mohammedanism . . .

79 posted on 02/15/2013 7:42:46 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: elcid1970

They were assimilabled to vote in the election.


80 posted on 02/15/2013 7:44:39 AM PST by Rusty0604
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