DAVID MARCUS: White guilt, apathy fuel massive corruption in Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Anne is white, successful her 30s and works successful tech, arsenic galore successful Minneapolis do. I talked to her connected the Skyway due to the fact that extracurricular it was arsenic acold arsenic the satellite Hoth, and erstwhile I asked astir the monolithic fraud ungraded involving the Somali community, she had a telling response.

"It’s hard to attraction overmuch astir it erstwhile ICE is disappearing Somalis connected the streets," she said.

This was, successful fact, alternatively loquacious compared to astir radical I spoke with, oregon tried to talk with astir the issue. The immense bulk simply unopen down astatine the notation of the topic. Most faces took connected an look that seemed to say, "we don’t speech astir that."

Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced astatine the commencement of the period that helium had opened an probe into "feckless mismanagement" by Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz that allowed what U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Daniel Rosen called "the largest Covid-19 fraud strategy successful the country." (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital; Scott Olson/Getty Images)

While determination were a fistful of Minnesotans I met who expressed existent vexation implicit the Somali-linked Feeding our Future bilking the authorities for millions, it was by acold the minority. Interestingly, the lone radical I met who would straight knock the Somali assemblage were Hispanic.

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Jack was a bully illustration of this cognition from the White population. A precocious millennial, and again a bundle engineer, helium said: "Lots of radical perpetrate fraud, truthful wherefore are [Somalis] being singled out?" He would yet add, "I don’t adjacent truly cognize what assimilation means."

This attitude, a substance of White guilt and apathy was besides wide successful Cedar-Riverside, the locus of the Somali community. On the faces of the fewer remaining non-Somali businesses, "We Love Our Somali Neighbors," blasted the marquis astatine the Cedar Center for arts.

A motion marks the entranceway to Karmel Mall, 1 of the largest Somali buying centers successful Minneapolis. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital)

Down the block, astatine a blistery canine store called the Weinery, was different pro-immigration motion successful the window. It was reminiscent of 2020, erstwhile shops enactment Black Lives Matters signs up similar lamb's humor implicit the lintel to support themselves from rioters.

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In Woody Allen’s movie, "Annie Hall," determination is simply a country successful which his parents are arguing due to the fact that the maid is stealing. The begetter says, "She’s a [Black] pistillate from Harlem, who is she expected to bargain from if not us?" That is precise overmuch however the White colonisation of Minneapolis seems to beryllium treating the fraud scandal, adjacent arsenic the tab for taxpayers tops $1 billion.

And it goes beyond conscionable the existent COVID wealth scandal. The state’s legalized marijuana programme is besides successful shambles due to the fact that of wokeness and DEI, with truthful overmuch accent placed connected putting the marginalized, oregon successful the connection of the state, "special equity applicants," successful charge, that the full strategy is breached and rather perchance corrupt.

The section quality media, to the grade to which you tin adjacent telephone it that, is conscionable arsenic fueled by White guilt, with 90% of its sum a antagonistic rotation connected ICE enforcement, and 10% a benignant of "Republicans Pounce" apologia implicit the fraud scandal.

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You astir person to manus it to the Democrats, oregon successful Minnesota, the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party, for realizing that they tin get distant with astir thing arsenic agelong arsenic they assertion to beryllium the protectors of the downtrodden Somali community.

What mightiness beryllium astir astonishing astir this instrumentality is that portion liberals effort to person america that members of the Somali colonisation are the victims of racism, I recovered nary racism astatine all. In fact, I saw overmuch the opposite, the Somalis person each but a protected presumption successful the caput of Minnesota’s White voters.

Men instrumentality portion successful a play Friday Jum’ah supplication league astatine Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center amid a reported ongoing national migration cognition targeting the Somali assemblage successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. December 5, 2025.   (REUTERS/Tim Evans)

It besides indispensable beryllium noted, that arsenic with galore mid-sized American cities, the denizens of downtown don’t consciousness affected by the corruption. Just arsenic neat, necktied Portlanders are blessed to measurement implicit dormant junkies en way to brunch, Minnesotans don’t consciousness the interaction of the fraud connected to the community.

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Add to this, that to the grade Somali immigrants are to beryllium seen successful the Twin Cities, they are the servants, the behind-the-scenes edifice workers and Uber drivers. As with Woody Allen’s fictional father, the radical successful Minneapolis are consenting to look the different mode erstwhile the maid steals a little.

The lone decision that I could travel to is that, if Minnesota is to propulsion retired of its nosedive into full-blown corruption, it indispensable beryllium voters successful the remainder of the authorities that volition person to determination the needle. After all, arsenic she correctly points out, astir of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s voters are White, not Somali.

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I went to Minnesota expecting to find choler implicit billions of dollars stolen from kids, but I tin lone find what I find, and what I recovered was an cognition that graft, by the close people, is astir viewed arsenic an acceptable signifier of reparations. 

Far from being cowed by this scandal, for which they are overmuch to blame, hapless Gov. Tim Walz and Omar person been riding a question of faux outrage implicit an water of White guilt. For now, it's working, and it's hard to spot what tin perchance marque it stop.