Qansa and Basra
Do you live in Holyoke Massachusetts?
On a serious note, read this
“The Somali resettlement was/is being proposed for a town where I work, Holyoke Massachusetts…… The residents protested, and were promptly labelled racist. They argued that their town was the poorest in the state, and that it had enough problems without imporing several hundred new poor people………. The sponsors argued that Holyoke was the best town to accept these refugees because they already had so many poor people, and therefore had services set up to help those people. Ted Kennedy came out in favor of the resettlement, and stated that morally we should be bringing in more Somalian refugees, not trying to block their resettlement……... The one problem I had with the entire effort is that the people supporting the resettlement all lived in the wealthy suburbs. They were in essence pushing a problem onto a city that could not defend itself -- and onto a town that did not have many resources to start with……..â€Â
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/1/02358/55957
Any information if Somalis settled there, an update urgently needed and appreciated.
