Here’s the Somali convenience store in Minneapolis where a clerk was just murdered last night. “He was like an uncle to me,” Somali teen milling around outside says of the victim. Adds that victim was hard-working. Another Somali teen says, “African Americans are hunting Somalis”

Asked why African Americans would be hunting Somalis, the teen says it’s because African Americans believe Somalis are getting special favors from the government. Teen angrily denies that Somalis themselves are “African Americans.” Here is a mural right across the street

According to these Cool Kid Media guys it’s not True Journalism unless you incessantly quote the same handful of foundation-funded professional activists and 100% mirror their preferred framing in every article https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1387442794806054913

Either cool kid Brooklyn journo @AlexYablon is a pure liar, or so aggressively, maliciously dishonest that he’s indistinguishable from a pure liar https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1387456813361209344

This makes zero sense. Unless you think journalists should never travel to report on any place that they don’t happen to live in. (Also, I spent a week in MPLS on this trip, and spent two weeks there last summer. Minnesotans should feel free to come report on NJ if they want)