It is worth recalling that the first Somalis imported were actual victims of the ruling Muslim gangs from the north. They were Christian and Animists from the south, blacker and more industrious than their northern counterparts.
The media featured stories of these "good boys" who would walk 2 or 3 or 4 miles to go to work one way in the cold. Then they started appointing the Omarite jagoffs in huge numbers.