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[lauradi7dw]

Trump has made some beyond appalling remarks about people in the US (especially Minnesota) with Somali ancestry. In response there has been massive trolling from Somalia and folks in the US to the effect that Minnesota is the promised land for Somalis, long foretold. Of course, 3000 years ago, when the Somalis supposedly arrived, there were lots of people already living there.
https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans

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[bitterlawngnome]

wait is he somehow claiming they arrived in MN 3000 years ago? I missed that one.

[lauradi7dw]

There's a whole thing* claiming that Minnesota was foretold as the promised land for people from Somalia, including a tiktok video of Somalis wearing what looked like 17th century European clothes, and jokes about having been here for 3000 years (ie way before white people, but they don't mention that they would still have been colonizers, which I think removes some of the humor). I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that.

* what was English like before we had the expression "It's a thing?"

[bitterlawngnome]

Before being a thing was a thing?

More complicated and more precise, for good or ill?