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With the rapid change in population, there's been tension here. Worries about a threatened way of life. Worries about racism and children's safety. Worries about what the rest of Minnesota thinks of St. Cloud, given all the attention, and given the developing reputation — fair or not — as an intolerant place. Worries that inaccuracies not rooted in reality are taken and cited as fact. Worries that this grand experiment called America is stumbling in St. Cloud. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/02/02/a-...
Posted By: Steve Williams
Sunday, September 18th 2016 at 3:23PM
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"As a black man born in America, I know a little something about racism. ... That problem we're not going to solve because some people just weren't raised very well. ... It doesn't matter what you are called, it only matters what you answer to."
— St. Cloud police chief Blair Anderson
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I live in Minneapolis/St. Paul suburbs and
.. I would add to stCloud PoLice Chief Anderson thoughts..."racism... some people just weren't raised very well."
st.cloud racist... "not raised very well folks".... RAN jews out of town
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st.cloud racist... "not raised very well folks" are in 2016... uberMichelle bachmanITES
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st.cloud racist... "not raised very well folks" are in 2016... seem to want to RUN out AfricanAmerican Somalis
them st.clouders .... they have been niiiggggerrinos a LONG time.............
Minneapolis and St. Paul are DFL tolerant progressives....stCloud 2016..... is ruralMississippi
Sunday, September 18th 2016 at 4:50PM
robert powell
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That's how it is around the country, urban v. rural.
Sunday, September 18th 2016 at 5:28PM
Steve Williams
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Falconer, a firearms trainer and permit to carry advocate, owns Tactical Advantage and Tactical Firearms Training in Waite Park, His professional biography says he "specializes in reality-based firearms, law enforcement and personal security training."
http://m.startribune.com/st-cloud-mall-clo...
Sunday, September 18th 2016 at 5:35PM
Steve Williams
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For full information about current year funding awarded to states, please contact the State Refugee Coordinator.
How to Use This Information
The table and links below contain contact information for resettlement agencies and other organizations providing services to refugees, persons newly granted asylum, or certification as a victim of trafficking, Special Immigrant Visa holders, Cuban/Haitian Entrants, and other populations eligible for benefits and services funded by ORR.
Voluntary Agency Affiliates Visit disclaimer pageprovide the full range of resettlement services, including referrals for short-term Cash and Medical Assistance, job development and English as a Foreign Language services, and other programs. At the bottom, you'll find links to additional agencies funded by ORR for a variety of social services programs, most available to eligible populations up to five years post-resettlement.
Questions? Contact the agencies directly, or get answers from the State Refugee and Health Coordinators and ORR Staff, listed under Key Contacts.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/state-...
Monday, September 19th 2016 at 10:05AM
Steve Williams
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Refugee Services
LSS Refugee Services offers hope and a helping hand to refugees as they start their new lives in Minnesota.
Through our different services, and with the help of many volunteers and community members, LSS Refugee Services strives to address the needs of all refugees and walk beside them as they start their new lives in the United States. Our organization is an affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS).
Our Services
LSS Refugee Services assists federally-approved refugees from various countries. We provide resettlement and immigration services to refugees and asylees.
Learn more about us:
Our services
About refugees and asylees
Small group study of the Muslim faith
Get involved and support newly arrived refugees
http://www.lssmn.org/refugeeservices/
Monday, September 19th 2016 at 10:10AM
Steve Williams
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A Case Study – St. Cloud, Minnesota The community of St. Cloud, with a population of 66,000, has seen an influx of some 4,500 foreign-born residents in 15 years – a 6% increase in its population. The Greater St. Cloud area, with a population of 189,000 - has seen an influx of 7,221 – a 4% increase.* When the Iraq War ended and the State of Minnesota was contemplating opening its doors to “free cases” – refugees not reuniting with family – Lutheran Social Service of MN held community stakeholder meetings in St. Cloud and were encouraged by stakeholders, especially the schools and English as a Second Language providers, to accept Iraqi refugees for resettlement in St. Cloud. After a handful of Iraqi refugees were resettled in St. Cloud, they virtually all “secondarily migrated” to the Detroit area which hosts the largest group of Iraqi refugees just as Minnesota has hosted the largest group of Hmong, Somali, and Karen refugees from Burma and North Dakota has hosted many Kurdish refugees. With an established office in St. Cloud, we began to receive family reunification cases for the growing Somali population there. LSS of Minnesota is the only MN refugee organization with an office in St. Cloud. We have settled just under 1,000 refugees in St. Cloud since 2008 – all of them reuniting with family members who already lived in St. Cloud. We plan to resettle about 215 refugees in St. Cloud in 2015. LSS Refugee Services is in conversation with community leaders in St. Cloud about how we can provide additional support for the integration of refugees into the community. Source: St. Cloud Immigration: A fact sheet, 4/15/2014, King Banaian & Monica Garcia-Perez, Department of Economics, St. Cloud State University
http://wwws.lssmn.org/WorkArea/DownloadAss...
Monday, September 19th 2016 at 10:23AM
Steve Williams
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While law enforcement has not disclosed the suspect's name, his father identified him as Dahir A. Adan, 22. Interviewed Sunday through a translator at his apartment in St. Cloud, Ahmed Adan said his son was born in Kenya but grew up in the United States. Other family members said Dahir Adan was beginning his third year as a student at St. Cloud State University.
http://m.startribune.com/st-cloud-mall-clo...
Monday, September 19th 2016 at 10:35AM
Steve Williams
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A community conversation: What it is like to be Somali in St. Cloud
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**********yet BIA 'whiteMan' steveAdam....goes OFF SUBJECT WITH.......refugees and asylees .....???
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BIA, an African American Family Site to SHATTER stereotypical MISCONCEPTIONS......
"......refugees and asylees
Small group study of the Muslim faith
Get involved and support newly arrived refugees
http://www.lssmn.org/refugeeservices/
Monday, September 19th 2016 at 10:10AM
Steve Williams
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steveAdam......Somali and other East African People BECAME refugees PRE 1991........25 YEARS ago.....
------ your Original SUBJECT above IS a discussion AMONGST African American CITIZENS....some from Africa Asia
Real African American Families
......with their OWN nonRacistly Ignorant Eurocentric Monotheistic Belief
......from a sovereign nation that was a byproduct of the COLD WAR......
STOP your Misconceptions at BIA.....
Monday, September 19th 2016 at 7:40PM
robert powell
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What a shame they are forced to live amongst those misguided pagan polytheists.
Tuesday, September 20th 2016 at 3:01AM
Steve Williams
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We are almost all a nation of immigrants. As LSS of Minnesota celebrated its 150th anniversary last year, we remembered the enormous wave of immigration at the turn of the last century that built many of our churches and communities.
In recent years, civil wars in other countries have caused refugees from those counties to immigrate to the United States. Now many of our new neighbors are of the Muslim faith.
The American popular press has been filled with news of the “war on terror” with negative characterizations of Muslim people. Though devout Muslims have tried to counter the media with reminders that Islam is a religion of devotion to God and peace among neighbors, those voices are sometimes hard to hear.
We are offering a resource to our church, and to anyone else who would like to use it, to help learn the basic tenets of Islam and understand our new neighbors.
Our intention is simply that this resource will open doors, minds, and hearts and dispel stereotypes and myths about Muslim neighbors just enough to start more conversations. I am touched by the stories of Christians who are inviting Muslim imams into dialogue, accepting the invitation to participate in iftar dinners during Ramadan, and hosting community multicultural celebrations.
We hope you can also use this resource to spread goodness and welcome Muslim neighbors to your community.
Tuesday, September 20th 2016 at 3:21AM
Steve Williams
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A community conversation: What it is like to be Somali in St. Cloud
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yet BIA 'whiteMan' steveAdam....goes OFF SUBJECT WITH....... .....???
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"......We hope you can also use this resource to spread goodness and welcome Muslim neighbors to your community."
Tuesday, September 20th 2016 at 3:21AM
Steve Williams
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You also selfProclaim at BIA, that you are from/around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
----- Philly has through 1940s-2016.... HAD the LARGEST Muslim Population in AMERICA
American Citizens that have "spread goodness ...... to your community."
----- have you heard "reminders that Islam is a religion of devotion to God and peace among neighbors, those voices are sometimes hard to hear. ..." ?
----- have you "accepting the invitation to participate in iftar dinners during Ramadan, and hosting community multicultural celebrations. ...." ?
do the right thing, and learn something about YOUR American Neighbors......
Tuesday, September 20th 2016 at 8:15AM
robert powell
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The problem is I'm not in Philly. Out here there are as few Muslims as Buddhists.
Tuesday, September 20th 2016 at 1:07PM
Steve Williams
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"......Oh, I don't know WHAT I would have done without you! You probably could have helped me get my degrees in physics, or likely not.
White-splaining: a combining form extracted from mansplain, and meaning “to explain or comment on something in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, from the perspective of the group one identifies with,” as in ladysplain; whitesplain : racism being whitesplained to a person of color. ...."
Wednesday, September 21st 2016 at 11:05PM
Reginald Goodwin
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You are from Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania is WHERE Kareem Abdul Jabbar reverted to AlIslaam
----- Pennsylvania is WHERE,
Imam W.D. Muhammad Taught that noi was a cult of paganChristians
.....AND gave Many Americans a path to AlQur'aan and the Sunnah of Mohamed(saw)
do the right thing, and learn something about YOUR American Neighbors......
Thursday, September 22nd 2016 at 7:19PM
robert powell
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