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Lurie Breaks It Down

Minnesota Somalis: Trump's Latest Target

Lurie Breaks It Down

Women's Empowerment Network

Culture, News, History, Society & Culture, Politics

5.0617 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Trump has been going on rants about Somalis in Minnesota and Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, calling them "garbage." Mayor Frey of Minneapolis responded defending Somalis and speaking (or at least attempting to speak) Somali mid speech.

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0:00.0

Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

0:05.0

She breaking down, down, down, down, down, down.

0:11.7

She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

0:17.3

She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough

0:22.5

To break these change we're in

0:24.2

They keep us in this painful condition

0:26.8

She gave us truth and division

0:29.5

That's why we listen

0:31.3

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

0:36.4

She break it down, down, down, down she break you down down down down down down down

0:40.8

all right beautiful people today is thursday december the 12th wherever you're at

0:45.0

and whatever time this is hey how you do and hope you are all well there's so much to get

0:48.8

into but before i jump into the news i want to share with you something that happened to me last

0:52.7

night or that i was a part of last night not happened to me when you say it that way it with you something that happened to me last night, or that I was a part of last night, not happen to me. When you say it that way, it sounds like something tragic happened to me. But something I got to participate in last night was this really great event at the New York Urban League. It was a town hall on which I was a panel member, and the town hall's focus was, or I should say the title of the town hall was our kids, our future,

1:15.8

a focus on public education. I just want to start by shouting out New York Urban League chapter president, Arva Rice, just an amazing sister here in the city who's doing some really phenomenal

1:20.0

work and the phenomenal Dr. Misha Porter, who is New York City's Department of Education school

1:25.5

chancellor or former school chancellor. It was really an honor to be on the panel with both of them.

1:30.1

Arva was a great moderator.

1:31.5

And we had this phenomenal conversation about culturally responsive education, which is an area

1:35.4

I've done a lot of work in.

1:36.8

One of my first jobs out of college was when I moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

1:40.6

after a whole host of racist incidents ended up having me and my comrade as being literally driven out of Penn State University under the protection of the armed guard of the new Black Panther Party and members of the Fruit of Islam.

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