{"id":97247,"date":"2016-05-25T06:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97247"},"modified":"2016-05-25T06:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:59:44","slug":"wp-for-somalis-hope-falls-to-the-cutting-floor-refugees-entrapped-by-popular-meat-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97247","title":{"rendered":"WP:  For Somalis, hope falls to the cutting floor &#8211; Refugees entrapped by popular meat industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What other jobs are they going to do? Computer programmer? <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.photius.com\/rankings\/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html\">The average Somali IQ is 68<\/a>, below what is considered mentally retarded.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/national\/2016\/05\/12\/for-many-somali-refugees-this-industry-offers-hope-then-takes-it-away\/?hpid=hp_no-name_somalis-845pm_2%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Washington Post<\/a>: LIBERAL, Kan. \u2014 First a stream of newcomers started renting ramshackle homes by the train tracks, and then a two-room mosque opened on a nearby street corner, and then an African grocery store took the space of what had once been a used car lot.<\/p>\n<p>And then, one day early last year, a bus pulled up to the Greyhound station and out came the latest arrival to the growing neighborhood known as \u201cLittle Somalia.\u201d Mohamed Ahmed, 23, held one suitcase and clutched a plastic bag with migration documents \u2014 the evidence of a trek in which he\u2019d fled warring Somalia as a young child, lost his father and spent years living with the remainder of his family under a United Nations tent in the Kenyan desert. His journey to America had been nearly two decades in the making, and now he was coming to its heartland \u2014 as were thousands of other Somali refugees \u2014 to take a grisly job that few others in his new country wanted to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What other jobs are they going to do? Computer programmer? The average Somali IQ is 68, below what is considered mentally retarded. Washington Post: LIBERAL, Kan. \u2014 First a stream of newcomers started renting ramshackle homes by the train tracks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97247\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-somalia-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97249,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97247\/revisions\/97249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}