Move over, Garrison Keiller. Lake Woebegone is like, so yesterday. The books and the NPR radio program really isn't that relevant to anyone in post-911 America.
Welcome to MinneDushu Days. MinneDushu Days is the brainchild of blogger/pod caster Ted Ebson.
In the mid-1990's, the civil war in Somalia created a refugee crisis. With the wind-down of hostilities in the war-torn nation, many Somalis were looking to emigrate to America. Minnesota Democrats, obsessed with political correctness and looking for more DFL voters, invited about 40,000 Somali emigrants into the Twin Cities area. Ebson states:
"What follows is a real culture clash, complete with zany honor killings, Muslim grocery workers who refuse to handle pig products, cabbies who refuse to allow dogs or alcohol into their cabs, and emigrants who return to their homeland to take up arms in the next wave in the war".
Ebson says that he would have liked to have hired character actor/voice over artist Mason Adams ("With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good") to play the role of narrator, but the actor died in 2005.
"Here you have a melting pot of conflict-averse Minnesota liberals, and the new residents. The Twin Cities neighborhood was formerly known as the Kenwoody Neighborhood.
The capitol of Somalia is Mogadishu, hence the new name of the neighborhood is MinneDishu. As is the case in real life, a radical Muslim is elected to Congress, with the vast support of the new emigrants from Somalia, as well as the liberal Dhimmicrats."
Ebson took the idea to Minnesota Public Radio, but was shown the door by MPR security. The new podcast is scheduled to start streaming sometime next year.
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