‘Commentary’ Archives
Frank Reflections: Transference of guilt: right or wrong?
By Frank Erickson Abdisalam Adam is a public school teacher and iman from St. Paul and a model for how the White House and U.S. law enforcement hope to avoid an American version of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.”””Washington Post It is amazing that they don”'t see the racism in their approach””that they connect the Paris killings to the Twin Cities, not from evidence that someone was planning such an attack, but from Minnesota having the largest U.S. population of Somali-Americans. That or Somali Community could produce such an attack based on religion and skin color and not on evidence that anyone is planning to use violence. In a chilling headline, “The time has come for Minnesota Somalis” ”“ he Star Tribune puts the entire Somali Community on trial, on the hot seat. They must see this as acceptable since local analyst Jamal Abdulahi wrote the editorial. (more…)
One Day”¦
By Peter Molenaar March17, about 3:10 p.m”¦. Picked up Camila for a 3:30 rendevous with CTUL. Camila is a “red-diaper baby” of Chilean descent, recently returned from a tour of Cuba. Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL) is a worker”'s center which rallies the community in support of vulnerable low-wage workers.  We drove down Lake Street to the Uptown McDonald”'s. It was protest, not burgers which moved us to follow our bold leaders. At long last the chanting brought forth a manager. We then politely requested decent wages and respect for all workers”¦ Hey”¦ There are some 13,000 McDonald”'s in the U.S. There is “a family of 2,400 owner/operators.”  To join the “family,” a minimum of $300,000.00 of non-borrowed personal resources is required, with a minimum 25% down. So, with 36,000 McDonald”'s on the planet (enough already!), I suggest we place our [...]
