The Part Of The Shiloh Hendrix Case No One Wants To Talk About

We’re at the point where pretty much every square-inch of the Shiloh Hendrix racial slur controversy has been debated and overanalyzed ad nauseam. It’s an n-bomb that, we’re told, rivals the destructive power of anything we dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki. But despite all of the coverage, probably the single most important aspect of the story — which is how exactly Minnesota woman Shiloh Hendrix ended up in a playground with two individuals “of Somali heritage” in the first place — still hasn’t been widely discussed. And that’s too bad, because that’s the part of the story that elevates it beyond a discussion about Shiloh Hendrix and language policing. It’s a question that has significant relevance to every American citizen. So it’s worth asking: Why exactly were those two individuals 8,000 miles away from Somalia?  And what are so many Somalis doing in this country, and in particular in Minnesota?

We’ll start with the specific location of this now-infamous incident, the city of Rochester. Rochester is the third-most populous city in the state of Minnesota. It originated as a humble stagecoach stop for travellers between St. Paul and Iowa before a part-time farmer and surgeon named William Mayo put the town on the map. During the Civil War, Mayo (who was born in England) moved to Rochester and began examining draftees to the Union army. Within a few years, he established what would become the Mayo Clinic — which now consistently ranks as the best hospital in the country, if not the world. Rochester, in other words, is an example of American excellence. To the extent that foreign nationals moved into Rochester, like William Mayo, it was to make the city a much better place for everyone.

But somewhere along the way, starting in the past few decades, the people running the state of Minnesota, including Tim Walz, decided to import a large group of people — not to improve the lives of American citizens in Rochester, but to secure a new and very loyal constituency. In particular, tens of thousands of refugees from the African nation of Somalia began pouring into the state, and many of them settled in Rochester. In fact, so many Somalis have now settled in Rochester that the city recently opened an entire community center just for them. Watch:

When William Mayo moved into Rochester, of course, he didn’t demand a community center for British citizens. He didn’t call for a segregated location where they could talk among themselves, away from those dastardly Americans. And he certainly didn’t start some fake “nonprofit” to do so, in order to secure a lot of taxpayer money and some write-offs. Instead, he did something productive. He built a medical practice that benefited the entire community and ultimately the entire world.

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But that’s not remotely what Rochester’s Somali population is interested in doing. Instead, they’ve created a web of nonprofits, to the point that every single news report involving Somalis in Rochester will inevitably mention a nonprofit at one point.

Here’s yet another example. This is a news report in which Somalis in Rochester celebrate their own country’s independence — not America’s independence, but Somalia’s independence. Watch:

Minnesota is the “Second home” of Somalis, as you just heard. Therefore, they have their own independence day and their own soccer championship. They host events for their own country because they understand, very well, that they aren’t part of the United States. And they don’t want to be.

Instead, the Somali population of Minnesota has committed itself to defrauding this country at every available opportunity. They have imported every bit of the corruption and wide-scale fraud that has destroyed Somalia.

In 2022, prosecutors announced federal charges against dozens of defendants who ripped off a federally-funded child nutrition program during the pandemic, to the tune of 250 million dollars. They claimed they served meals, and then they didn’t actually serve them. We’re talking about more than 70 defendants here, and most of them were Somalis.

As the Minnesota Reformer states:

A dizzying array of nonprofits were created or revived to participate in a U.S. Department of Agriculture program to provide free meals to children during the pandemic. … Two Minnesota nonprofits are at the center of the case — Feeding Our Future and Partners in Nutrition — in what prosecutors say was the nation’s biggest pandemic relief fraud.  …  An FBI forensic accountant testified Wednesday that the largest food distribution site out of the 50 sites connected to the defendants was at the Dar Al-Farooq mosque in Bloomington, where they claimed to serve 1.9 million meals in 2021, for $4.9 million in reimbursement.

This fraud, unsurprisingly, was apparently enabled by Democrats in the Minnesota legislature.

As the outlet reports:

Rep. Hodan Hassan withdrew two bills that would’ve given the [Somali nonprofit called “Somali Community Resettlement Services”] a total of $6.5 million in grants. … Evidence prepared for the federal trial linked the nonprofit to the Feeding Our Future case. … It sponsored eight distribution sites in Minnesota cities where the defendants claimed to serve thousands of meals and snacks daily in 2020 and 2021, for which it was reimbursed over $2.9 million. Of that, the Somali nonprofit paid the defendants and their various entities purporting to be serving meals $1.83 million, meaning it kept nearly $1.1 million.

In other words, the Somali population of Minnesota isn’t just ripping off American taxpayers. They’re electing corrupt representatives who are helping facilitate the fraud, one way or another. To be clear, unpacking all of the various fraudulent operations at work here would take about five years, so I’m not going to attempt it. Instead I’ll focus on one aspect of this story, which really highlights the comical and absurd level of corruption at work here.

During one of these trials, some of the defendants hatch a plan to bribe a juror with $200,000. They decide to just drop it at the juror’s front door, along with a note explaining that it’s a bribe. So it’s not the most subtle operation. But then a funny thing happens. As the courier is taking the money to the juror’s front porch, she skims $80,000 from the bribe money and keeps it for herself, without telling her co-conspirators.

So even the Somalis are scamming other Somalis here. Watch:

You have to imagine this kind of thing happens constantly in Somalia, and in places like Rochester. Bribery is a common part of the culture in Africa. I’ll never forget landing in the airport in Nairobi a few years ago and having officials at the airport demand a bribe like 5 minutes after we got off the plane. If you drive anywhere in these African countries, it’s recommended that you have cash on you to pay bribes to the cops in case you get stopped. Like I said, it’s part of the culture there. And now it’s part of the culture in Minnesota. Whenever fraudsters are extremely brazen about their crimes, it usually means that they’ve done it many, many times before without any consequences. In this case, they just happened to run into a juror with a basic sense of morality. And of course, even when they’re caught, they’re totally shameless about it. Calling this an endemic problem would be a major understatement.

On Reddit, just to emphasize the point, there’s a topic called: “Question on possibly moving to Minnesota.”

Here’s the question: “Salaam my brothers and sisters. Thinking about moving to Rochester, Minnesota for a job, is there a large Somali community there?”

And here’s one of the top-rated replies: “From what I understand there is a fairly large Somali community in Rochester. The community is tight knit from what I hear, they’ll even cut you in on their latest scams. Best of luck!”

One of the reasons this fraud is so prevalent — other than the fact that many Somalis, like Ilhan Omar, despise this country — is that they don’t have the capacity to do anything else. Something like 54% of Somalis in Minnesota are below the poverty line, compared to 12% of people living in Minnesota overall. Roughly 65% of Somali children live in poverty. The numbers are similar in the UK, where 72% of Somalis live in socialized housing, even though they only make up 16% of the population. There isn’t a single Western society on Earth that’s been improved by importing large quantities of Somalis, and the lives of these Somalis aren’t really improving that much either. They’re simply bringing corruption, violence and poverty wherever they go.

And they were apparently bringing some antisocial behavior to the playground in Rochester, if Shiloh Hendrix’s version of events is true. As she put it, a black child, reportedly of “Somali heritage,” tried to take items from her bag. Then, after calling the black child a slur in some manner, Hendrix was accosted by a Somali man who’s completely unrelated to the black child. And that Somali man, as we discussed the other day, has a history of sexual assault allegations that were later dropped in court.

From Shiloh Hendrix’s perspective, let’s recap: She wanted to enjoy a day at the park with her child in Rochester. But she couldn’t enjoy it because, like so many other cities in Minnesota, Rochester has deliberately imported a lot of third-world behavior. Put aside whether she’s a good person or a bad person, or whether she used a bad word. Instead, put what happened in context. Consider the fact that Minnesota’s “Cedar Riverside” neighborhood has been nicknamed “Little Mogadishu” because there’s so many Somali migrants flooding in. And then consider the fact that Little Mogadishu has seen a 56% increase in violent crime from 2010 to 2018, right when the Somali population was surging. Imagine living through this. Imagine that the local parks — which were once a point of pride for Rochester — are now full of people who are incapable of behaving like they belong in civilization. How exactly would you respond in that scenario?

You’d probably be exasperated. You might even say something naughty on camera. But if you did say, it really wouldn’t serve any purpose to blame you. It’d be like blaming a driver if he crashes in a poorly-designed intersection. Yes, the driver made a mistake. But the real problem, which the government engineered, is what actually needs to be addressed. In the case of Shiloh Hendrix, that’s not happening.

After my commentary the other day, in which I voiced my support for Hendrix’s fundraiser as a way of dealing a death blow to cancel culture, I’ve been accused of belonging to the so-called “woke right,” or using “third rail tactics” that are typical of the “woke right.” No one’s ever explained what exactly any of these terms mean, or how a monologue in which I explicitly condemned cancel culture could be described as “woke” in any meaningful way.

But the point of these allegations about the “woke right” isn’t to make sense. The point is to derail the conversation, so that everyone’s talking about labels and meta-analysis, instead of Shiloh Hendrix and what’s happened to cities like Rochester. Without much fanfare, large portions of this country have been converted into miniature versions of Somalia. You can see the evidence everywhere — from community centers to parks to playgrounds.

And if you really want to understand the Shiloh Hendrix story, which not many people do, then you can start by explaining to her — and everyone else in Rochester — what exactly two individuals of “Somali heritage” were doing in that playground in the first place. Why exactly are we importing Somalians into this country en masse? In what way has it improved American society? That’s a fair question. It’s also a forbidden one. Just like it’s forbidden to state the obvious here: nobody wants to live in a community overrun with Somalian immigrants. If you had a choice to live in a community where 60% of the population is Somalian, or one where zero percent is Somalian, you would choose the latter. Every single person would. And we all know it.

What’s more, if you had a choice between living next door to Shiloh Hendrix, or living next door to the Somalian accused child abuser who was filming her, you’d choose Shiloh every time. Every single person would. And we all know it.

So then why are we doing this? Why are going out of our way to make our communities in this country resemble the worst and most dysfunctional countries on the planet? Can you explain that? If you can’t, then you have no business telling anyone who has to live amid this dysfunction what they can and can’t say. Whether that makes me a member of the “woke right” or not, I don’t really care. It’s true — and everyone living in places like Rochester knows it very well.