The naive high-trust Scandihoovians of Minneapolis never had a chance against their imported diversity. This huge financial scandal not only isn’t a surprise, it was absolutely inevitable before the first Somali even obtained an official position:
Sharmarke Issa was confirmed by the Minneapolis City Council to chair Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA). Issa is the first immigrant and first East African to serve as chair of the MPHA Board of Commissioners.
“Having grown up in in Minneapolis public housing after coming to our city as a refugee, Sharmarke’s story of success highlights public housing as vital asset in Minneapolis,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. “Sharmarke’s life experience and background in urban planning are especially important to MPHA’s mission. At a time when the federal government continues to shortchange housing funding, he will be a skilled steward of our public housing infrastructure who understands and centers the needs of residents.”
Approximately one-third of Minneapolis Public Housing residents are members of the East-African community. One third. 1 in 3 are Somalis. Just one of those little factoids about diversity being our strength. Kinda like Issa’s stewardship.
An Edina man who chaired the board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal wire fraud charges for his role in the Feeding Our Future nutrition program fraud scheme. That was a $250 million social welfare fraud to help the Somali community.
Sharmarke Issa, 42, admitted to running entities that laundered federal funding for the scheme, including Wacan Restaurant LLC and a nonprofit called Minnesota’s Somali Community. Issa was responsible for $7.6 million of the $50 million in fraud scheme money that the federal government says it lost.
Look, if you’re dumb enough to not only permit a mass invasion of foreigners, but actually hand those foreigners control of the political offices and the bureaucracies, you’re going to get systematically harvested. Because foreigners always operate according to their own customs and mores, not yours. And if you’re an unusually high-trust society, then literally every single migrant and refugee you welcome is going to be lower-trust than the norm to which you are accustomed.
The movement of peoples is a social and societal catastrophe that could have been very easily avoided. But the Boomers and Gen X were too afraid that someone, somewhere, might call them names, so they meekly allowed the diversification and destruction of their societies. So be it. Soft societies never survive for long. It’s going to be interesting to see what replaces them.