Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s Somali American community.
Yeah it’s a bummer. History is full of shitty stuff, too much of it is the same as now. Also if you study history or sociology any you start to see that humans, no matter how we organize ourselves, fall into sadly predictable patterns by stubbornly refusing to learn the lessons of our past.