I Am Still Amazed at How Many Republicans Are Trying to Drag Us into This Hell...
Betsy Hodges: [("Donald Trump, you need to know a few things about][] Minnesota that your ignorant tirade in Minnesota today revealed you do not know and I fear you are incapable of understanding:
You say "don't let them roam our communities" like you have already created the fascist state you are hoping to turn this country into. This is America, Donald, and the Somali people of Minnesota and Minneapolis are not roaming our communities, they are building them.
Minnesota has problems, that's for sure. All states do. There is poverty, and violence, and despair, and those have consequences - in every group, in every community, including the people you addressed today. But we aren't like you, Donald. In Minnesota we respond to those challenges with kindness, not hate; by pulling together more rather than less; by appreciating one another more rather than less; and by working harder, not by giving up on one another. Everything you've done in your life - from your business practices to your sexual assaults to your Islamophobia to your constant blaming of others for the problems you've created yourself - betrays your ignorance of those values. But they are Minnesota values and we will vote them on Tuesday.
Minneapolis is a better, stronger place for having our Somali and East African immigrants and refugees in it. It is a privilege and an honor to be mayor of the city with the largest Somali population in this country. Your ignorance, your hate, your fear just make me remember how lucky we are to have neighbors who are so great.
You did get one thing right today, though. "Four years, you can forget it," you said. Indeed. You can forget it.
