Carter is Black, but American Black, not Somali. I think at this point he’s trying to preserve his political relevance and possible future. He was beaten in the general election by an Asian woman who ran to his left.
Carter was a decent mayor, in that he was more concerned with jobs, development, and preserving the tax base. The last Democrat mayor of St. Paul who did that eventually found himself pushed out of the party and turned Republican.
My bad......I was thinking about the Minneapolis mayor Frey