Telling the Truth Is Not Racist

A critical examination of the correlation between race and crime, focusing on Somali immigration and welfare fraud.

One of the great advantages the left has is that every time a conservative speaks an uncomfortable truth, it sounds...racist. 

The facts on the ground make certain groups look better as a class, while others look decidedly worse. We can argue about whether the correlations between violent crime and race have much to do with race itself or whether there is another factor involved, but the raw facts show that black men are more likely to be violent criminals than any other class of people. 

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The same can be said of Somalis and welfare fraud. Somalis make up about 0.07% of the US population, but the percentage of welfare fraud they commit is astronomical. Over 70% of Somalis are on some sort of welfare, and God knows how many of the rest are participating in providing them fraudulent "services." 

Even Somali government officials are in on the fraud. The UN Security Council president is Somali, and he owns a government-funded healthcare company in Ohio. A Somali Member of Parliament has a company getting money from the State of Minnesota. Somali fraud is everywhere around the country, apparently, even where almost no Somalis live. 

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Liberals will insist that Somalis are "part of the fabric" of our country, but that is just a joke. They are part of the fabric of the Democratic Party money laundering machine, and little else. 

BRUTAL! Rep. Brandon Gill just destroyed the Democrats' witness on Minnesota fraud.

@RepBrandonGill: "Does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?"

Democrat Witness: "Certainly stronger."

Rep. Gill: "Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?"

Democrat Witness: "No."

Rep. Gill: "54%. What percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on Medicaid?"

Democrat Witness: "I don't know."

Rep. Gill: "It's 73%. What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?"

Democrat Witness: "I don't know."

Rep. Gill: "It's 81% ... What percentage of working-age Somalis who have been in the U.S. for ten years or more, how many of them speak English very well?"

Democrat Witness: "I don't know."

Rep. Gill: "The answer is about half. That seems pretty low, doesn't it? ... It doesn't sound like something that makes our country stronger to me, and I think most Americans would agree with me on that."

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Democrats are defending this fraud complex as they always defend the indefensible: calling it "white supremacy." Apparently, not wanting to get ripped off is a white value, not a basic human need. 

“This is the template. You see this all the time. The left will tell a lie. The media will report the lie or not report when the truth comes out. Then when you tell the truth, they call you racist. It's as old as time. We see it all the time.”

Cries of "racism" are nothing but a weapon being used against anybody who is willing to tell the truth. Nobody is going after Somali fraud because it is SOMALI fraud, but because it is fraud, and corruption corrodes the very foundation of any society. 

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Corruption is normalized, and the only way corruption at this scale can be perpetrated for any period of time is to shame anybody who calls it out in the most vile ways possible. 

I don't believe that race itself is at the heart of the fraud and crime crises; rather, the permission structure created by people willing to scream "Racism!" has created an environment that encourages behavior that any group of people might be inclined to participate in given the opportunity might engage in if they had the opportunity. 

Because certain groups get a free pass, they take that free pass. And since Somalis come from a society where anybody who DIDN'T seize the opportunity to steal would be considered a fool, they seized the opportunity at a higher-than-expected rate. 

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Somalis come from a garbage culture. Anybody who denies that is welcome to vacation in Somalia and find out for themselves. It shouldn't be any more controversial to make that observation than to say "Russia is a kleptocracy" or "North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship." 

It's just true. We must say true things in order to do good things. It really doesn't matter whether Somalis are black, white, or green. Objectively speaking, they have been a huge problem as a group of migrants here and around the world. 

Ask the Norwegians. They ran the numbers, and they are sobering. 

We keep being told that "diversity is our strength," but nobody seems capable of demonstrating that this is actually the case when it comes to certain immigrant groups. The same people who make this claim will also decry any effort to deport Tren de Aragua gang members, and weep when an MS-13 human trafficking wife beater gets deported. 

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The ultimate irony is that the deployment of the racism accusations has amplified racism itself. Since the focus is put on race and its correlation with negative behaviors, everybody makes that mental association, and it gets burned into us. The bad behavior is real, and now we tend to think of it as a racial characteristic. 

America is becoming more racist because of accusations of racism. It no longer works as a shield because it is an all-purpose ad hominem attack that no longer phases anybody. 

If we want to solve the problems and not sweep them under the rug, we have to start with the facts. And the fact is that Somalis have not become part of the "fabric of our state (or nation)," but a huge drag on our economy and a threat to our social order. 

The Democrats have joined themselves at the hip to the worst of this population and encouraged their behavior. 

I'm quite certain that the fraud goes well beyond the Somali community, and even more confident that the ringleaders are white and black politicians who use the Somali corruption to fund the Democratic Party machine. 

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All of them should go to jail. 


David Strom

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