White Guilt Over Accountability: Minneapolis Shrugs at $250M Stolen from Hungry Kids

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David Marcus went to Minneapolis figuring he'd find locals angry about the Feeding Our Future scandal—hundreds of millions in taxpayer cash meant for feeding kids, allegedly stolen in one of the biggest pandemic frauds ever.

He expected rage over the money going to luxury cars, houses, and fancy lifestyles instead of vulnerable children.

What he actually found: total apathy from white residents, driven by guilt. Digging too deep into the graft might come off as 'racist.' Easier to shrug it off as unofficial reparations than push for real accountability.

This isn't just sloppy oversight—it's a rotten blend of performative virtue and fear of backlash, letting corruption thrive while the kids who need help most get screwed.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Anne is White and in her 30s and works in tech, as many in Minneapolis do. I talked to her on the Skyway, because outside it was as cold as the planet Hoth, and when I asked about the massive fraud scandal involving the Somali community, she had a telling response.

"It’s hard to care much about it when ICE is disappearing Somalis on the streets," she said.

This was, in fact, rather loquacious compared to most people I spoke with, or tried to speak with about the issue. The vast majority simply shut down at the mention of the topic. Most faces took on an expression that seemed to say, "We don’t talk about that. While there were a handful of Minnesotans I met who expressed real frustration over the Somali-linked Feeding our Future bilking the government for millions, it was by far the minority. Interestingly, the only people I met who would directly criticize the Somali community were Hispanic. 

Jack was a good example of this attitude from the White population. A late millennial, and again a software engineer, he said, "Lots of people commit fraud, so why are [Somalis] being singled out?" He would eventually add, "I don’t even really know what assimilation means."

This attitude, a mixture of White guilt and apathy, was also clear in Cedar-Riverside, the locus of the Somali community. On the faces of the few remaining non-Somali businesses, "We Love Our Somali Neighbors" blasted the marquee at the Cedar Cultural Center.

So, the attitude was a mix of 'Well, ICE is breaking up families so it should be ok' and 'We used to have slavery in the United States and the people from Somalia also have Black skin so we will just call it reparations'. What a bizarre attitude. It's not entirely surprising to me. Had the residents actually cared, they would be taking to the streets demanding accountability, but that is not at all what they're doing. 

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Much of it was when the late millennials went to college. It continued on until people began to discover it in 2020 and call it out. Normies lost a decade or two though. 

This is exactly it. They don't care about the less fortunate or using tax dollars for the good of the most vulnerable. They only care about money in the sense it can be used to purchase power. It's sickening.