Somali immigrants in this country are afraid everyone will hate them because of the Somali pirates causing so much trouble. Let's hope Americans are more understanding than that. - - Donna Poisl
By LEE HILL KAVANAUGH, The Kansas City Star
For Somali natives living in Kansas City, the news of pirates trolling their homeland’s polluted waters cuts twice.
These Somalis see the pirates as orphaned boys looking for a way to survive, but they also denounce the violence. They say the world doesn’t know their country’s bigger problems, doesn’t understand the hopelessness that might drive someone to seize a ship.
They also fear that their new country will lump them in with the pirates and treat them all with the same disdain. Kansas City is home to the second-largest Somali community in the United States — some 5,000 people, mostly in the city’s Northeast area.
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