tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760998869129513105.post1104219443655289542..comments2023-10-28T02:23:05.411-05:00Comments on crista from the block* ...goes blog: : : : NEWS FLASH : : :Bird*http://www.blogger.com/profile/12474076662541570284noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760998869129513105.post-21411939661105272572008-12-10T00:04:00.000-06:002008-12-10T00:04:00.000-06:00Oh, how awful...Oh, how awful...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760998869129513105.post-50252787167756777172008-12-11T14:59:00.000-06:002008-12-11T14:59:00.000-06:00Why are you reading Fox News??Why are you reading Fox News??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760998869129513105.post-81859272671729420212008-12-11T15:33:00.000-06:002008-12-11T15:33:00.000-06:00SO@24, I get the news from many different sources,...SO@24, I get the news from many different sources, and actually heard about this story from an e-mail, my bud sent me (due to my neighborhood being heavily populated with Somalis)<br><br>I googled "Minneapolis Somali Dissapearing." Of all the articles that popped up, this was the article that had the most information.<br><br>THANKS for your inquiry Mr. 24 going on 26 :) I typically get my news @ CNN & BBC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7760998869129513105.post-42462169353275509552008-12-16T23:58:00.000-06:002008-12-16T23:58:00.000-06:00It seems like the question NOT being asked, though...It seems like the question NOT being asked, though, is about what is actually going on in Somalia and what it means to be a Somalian immigrant or refugee in the U.S. Sometimes, I think popular consciousness about immigration is still so steeped in early-twentieth-century American Tale kind of rhetoric that some crucial differences are not being asked. It wasn't even ten years ago, after all, that Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times by New York City's finest...<br><br>I'm just saying, the framing of this as "brainwashing" is pretty absurd -- like no one could reasonably have a political agenda that didn't involve only or primarily voting. It's characterization of the so-called "Islamic Insurgency" in Somalia -- hell, it's characterization of the recent history and politics of Somalia generally -- is ill-informed at best and quite offensively racist, in truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com