MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Anne is white, in her thirties and works in technology, as many in Minneapolis do. I spoke to her on the Skyway because it was as cold outside as on the planet Hoth, and when I asked about the massive fraud scandal involving the Somali community, she had a telling answer.
“It’s hard to care much when ICE makes Somalis disappear into the streets,” she said.
This was actually quite chatty compared to most of the people I talked or tried to talk to about this issue. The vast majority simply stopped mentioning the subject. Most faces took on an expression that seemed to say, “We don’t talk about that.”
While there were a handful of Minnesotans I met who expressed genuine frustration with the Somalia-linked Feeding our Future that was ripping off the government for millions, these were by far the minority. Interestingly enough, the only people I met who directly criticized the Somali community were Spanish speakers.
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Jack was a good example of this attitude of the white population. He is a late millennial and again a software engineer: “Many people commit fraud, so why do they do it? [Somalis] be singled out?” He would eventually add, “I don’t even really know what assimilation means.”
This attitude, a mixture of white guilt and apathy, was also evident in Cedar-Riverside, the home of the Somali community. The faces of the few remaining non-Somali businesses read “We Love Our Somali Neighbors,” the marquis of the Cedar Center for Arts.
Down the street, at a hot dog shop called the Weinery, another pro-immigration sign was in the window. It was reminiscent of 2020, when stores plastered Black Lives Matters signs across the lintel like lamb’s blood to protect themselves from rioters.
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In Woody Allen’s movie ‘Annie Hall’ there is a scene where his parents are fighting because the maid is stealing. The father says, “She is one [Black] woman from Harlem, who should she steal from if not us?” That’s broadly how the white population of Minneapolis seems to be treating the fraud scandal, even though the bill to taxpayers is more than $1 billion.
And it goes beyond just the current COVID money scandal. The state’s legalized marijuana program is also in shambles due to wokeness and DEI, with so much emphasis on sidelining the marginalized, or in state parlance, “special equity applicants,” that the entire system is broken and possibly corrupt.
The local news media, if you can even call it that, is equally fueled by white guilt, with 90% of the coverage putting a negative spin on ICE enforcement, and 10% some sort of “Republicans Pounce” apology about the fraud scandal.
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You almost have to hand it to the Democrats, or in Minnesota to the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party, when you realize that they can get away with almost anything as long as they claim to be the protectors of the oppressed Somali community.
Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this trick is that while liberals try to convince us that members of the Somali population are victims of racism, I have found no racism at all. In fact, I saw the opposite: Somalis have virtually protected status in the minds of white voters in Minnesota.
Men take part in a weekly Jum’ah prayer session on Friday at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center amid a reported ongoing federal immigration operation targeting the Somali community in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, December 5, 2025. (REUTERS/Tim Evans)
It should also be noted that, as with many mid-sized American cities, downtown residents do not feel affected by the corruption. Just as neat-tie Portlanders like to step over dead junkies on the way to brunch, Minnesotans don’t feel the effects of community-related fraud.
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Add to that the fact that to the extent that Somali immigrants are seen in the Twin Cities, they are the white-collar workers, the behind-the-scenes hotel workers, and Uber drivers. Like Woody Allen’s fictional father, the people of Minneapolis are willing to look the other way when the girl steals a little.
The only conclusion I could draw is that if Minnesota is to pull itself out of its nosedive into outright corruption, it will be voters in the rest of the state who will have to take the lead. After all, as she rightly points out, most of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s voters are white, not Somali.
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I went to Minnesota expecting to find anger over billions of dollars stolen from children, but I can only find what I find, and what I found was an attitude that is almost seen by the right people as an acceptable form of reparation.
Instead of being intimidated by this scandal, for which they are deeply to blame, hapless Governor Tim Walz and Omar have channeled a wave of false outrage over an ocean of white guilt. It’s working for now, and it’s hard to see what could possibly make it stop.
