Mayor of Lewiston, Maine, outraged many by his letter saying that Somali immigrants were depleting the city's resources and discouraged new immigrants from moving to Lewiston.
Karen Grigsby Bates and regular commentator Michael Eric Dyson discuss a rift between the mayor of Lewiston, Maine, and the town's rapidly growing population of immigrants from Somalia. [Streaming audio. 6 mins] "Somali community was outraged...because it presupposed that they were not intelligent, they didn't bring anything resourceful to the community, they were not filling jobs that others did not want to do and bringing...revival to the economy."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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