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I was doing some research on Omaha, NE since it is one of the places I have considered relocating to and came across this interesting fact about Minneapolis:
"The percentage of black children in Omaha who live in poverty rank ranks number one in the United States, with nearly six of 10 black kids living below the poverty line. Only one other metropolitan area in the U.S., Minneapolis, has a wider economic disparity between blacks and whites"
The black community in the Twin Cities,at least size-wise, is of more recent origin than any other big metro, no mystery to it.
A stat in general, Twin Cities have added more population in past 30 years than live in metro Milwaukee. The biggest "boom " area in northern US.
In the 70's few blacks(any?) lived in East St.Paul,today its semi-ghetto.Ditto N. Mpls.
I don't know about that but I was thinking both Chicago, IL and Gary, IN are predominately blacks.
Sorry marmac! we seem to have misunderstanding and If I was rude I apologize.
Also Minneapolis never developed a black middle class. Once black people found success they moved to the suburbs. However, we never decided that we would make a suburb are own like how the Jews moved in to St. Louis Park. Time will allow for more demographic shifts. I always say Minneapolis is like no other city.
I don't know about that but I was thinking both Chicago, IL and Gary, IN are predominately blacks.
Sorry marmac! we seem to have misunderstanding and If I was rude I apologize.
I am done on this topic.
Gary is predominately black, but not Chicago--it's only about 38% black. Lots of predominately black neighborhoods and some predominately black burbs, but the city as a whole is not.
Somalians are legal immigrants and I hope they prosper in Minneapolis.
For the life of me, I don't think I'll ever understand why we brought Somalis into the U.S. I don't understand how that is supposed to benefit the American people in any sort of a way. The people of Minnesota should have heavily protested their relocation to Minnesota. I guess they'll pay for that kind of stupidity with their tax dollars and crime statistics now.
for the life of me, i don't think i'll ever understand why we brought somalis into the u.s. I don't understand how that is supposed to benefit the american people in any sort of a way. The people of minnesota should have heavily protested their relocation to minnesota. I guess they'll pay for that kind of stupidity with their tax dollars and crime statistics now.
For the life of me, I don't think I'll ever understand why we brought Somalis into the U.S. I don't understand how that is supposed to benefit the American people in any sort of a way. The people of Minnesota should have heavily protested their relocation to Minnesota. I guess they'll pay for that kind of stupidity with their tax dollars and crime statistics now.
It's my understanding that the Somalis were originally brought to Minnesota because of the presence of some sort of trauma center in the Twin Cities that specialized in folks who were displaced from their homes for political reasons.
I'm sure many of the more recent immigrants came to the Twin Cities because it already has an established and thriving Somali community.
I don't think the US was supposed to benefit at all ... instead, I suspect the idea was to aid people who lived in a region without any form of stable government by providing them with homes in a place where violent death wasn't quite so common.
I personally have nothing against giving aid to those in need, especially if the giving of that aid has little to no negative impact on me. I also think most of the Somalis in the US are both law abiding and grateful for the aid they have been given.
It's wonderful that our nation is so generous as to help these poor people. However, we already have millions of needy people right here in the United States who need help, people's children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. For an excellent discussion about the merits of rescuing people from abject poverty by letting them into the U.S., please watch this video called "Immigration Gumballs".
Of course, every American should watch the full discussion about the dangers of population explosion and our nation's path towards 450 million by 2050, part of which is available here:
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