Tim Walz Was Asked About Somali Fraud Scandal, He Instead Attacks White Men
- ForAmerica
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Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was recently asked if Somali immigrants in his state will be held accountable for the more than $1 billion in fraud some of them have been accused of.
Instead of answering the question, he redirected it to talking about white men.
Dozens of Somalis in Minnesota have been charged with stealing $1 billion from social services programs, funds that were supposed to help feed children and aid the poor.
When Walz was asked about the scandal on Friday, he replied that white people have also committed crimes.
A reporter asked the governor, “What do you want to hear more from instead of just saying don’t blame us? Do you want to see more ownership and oversight from within the Somali community?”
Walz replied, “Look, it’s not law-abiding citizens. If that were the case, there’s a lot of white men should be holding a lot of white men accountable for the crimes that they have committed.”
He continued, “I think for the community to maybe educate their population, because I think what you’re seeing here is there’s secondary victims in this, that there’s providers inside the community that are then victimizing the community themselves by signing them up, because when we’re going to some of these people, they’re like, I had no idea I was in this program."
He stuck to the white men theme, adding, "So I think it’s asking us then, you know, for every crime, which of course the majority being committed by white men, asking us to do more about that. I think it’s crime in general."
Walz is not the only political leader in Minnesota to try to divert genuine concern about criminal activity from the state's Somali community to white men.
The massive fraud scam in Minnesota that heavily implicates members of the Somali population in that state is not going away, no matter how much Democratic leaders wish it would.
Yes, Tim Walz, white men commit crimes.
But that's not exactly what anyone is talking about with this situation.
And people are going to talk about it - for good reason, for absolutely necessary reasons - whether you and your party like it or not.