• zeezee@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    White man from South Africa (even further away than Somalia) - who was literally never voted into power yet got appointed anyways - says something racist - colour me shocked…

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      Claims it was Somalians (“who were not born in America”) who voted Ilhan Omar into Congress.

      Across the entire US it’s estimated that 260k are of Somalian descent, 84k of whom live in Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Ilhan Omar’s district has 700k residents, 60% white.