A Strange Kind of Nostalgia

by Paul Jones

The highly acclaimed Jewish intellectual, Thomas L. Friedman, author of the best seller book discussing free trade and globalization, “The World Is Flat,” wrote an article in the Op-Ed section of “The New York Times” of May 15, 2019 titled “President Trump, Come to Willmar.”

Willmar, Minn. was where in 1949 an uncle and aunt of Thomas Friedman had moved from Minneapolis to set up a small steel distribution company in the west-central part of the state. Thomas visited there regularly over a 50 year period, and he recalls how about 40 years ago he was surprised to hear how his aunt had heard with awe for the first time someone speaking Spanish in a local grocery store.

Since the author of the article has been on a project of visiting towns around the U.S. over the past two years, he decided to go back to Willmar, the town where his relatives had passed away over a decade ago.

He found “a modern, successful melting pot.” According to the white mayor, Marv Calvin, “We had 1,200 to 1,600 Somalis when I started as mayor in 2014 and now we have 3,500 to 3,800…We also have 800 Karen people from Burma.” As Friedman points out, “Add to that over 4,000 Latinos and you have a town of 21,000 that had been virtually all white and Christian its entire existence become nearly half new immigrants in the blink of two decades.”

“And it is pretty clear where this is going. In the public early childhood program, the mayor said, 45 percent of students are of East African descent, 35 percent Latino and 16 percent Caucasian (although a lot of whites send their kids to private schools).”

Hamse Warfa, a Somali-American entrepreneur who’s now Minnesota’s assistant commissioner for economic opportunity and the highest ranking African immigrant in the state government, says “Willmar matters. It might be a small town, but it is reflecting all the global issues.”

The take on all this by Friedman is that he sees that “…America is actually a checkerboard of towns and cities-some rising from the bottom up and others collapsing from the top down, ravaged by opioids, high unemployment among less-educated white males and a soaring suicide rate. I’ve been trying to understand why some communities rise and others fall-and so many of the answers can be found in Willmar… It has almost zero unemployment. If you can fog up a mirror, you can get a job in Willmar-whether as an agriculture scientist or as a meatpacker for the Jennie-O turkey plant. The math is simple: There just aren’t enough white Lutheran Scandinavians to fill those jobs.”

So to put it in simple terms, for Friedman-as I’m sure it is for most Jews as well-it doesn’t matter at all that whites are being displaced and bred out of existence by non-whites in many small towns across America. In fact, the implication is that the eventual total disappearance of whites, as reflected in the demographic trends in Willmar’s public school system, would be seen as something positive. There is no sense at all of whites playing a positive role anymore, except possibly as that of the cucked mayor of this small Minnesota town, happily presiding over the rapid disappearance of his racial kin.

From Friedman’s point of view, what’s been happening in Millmar, and other towns similar to it which he has been visiting across America, is a great development for this country. One would think that he would have felt nostalgic about the earlier days spent with his his aunt and uncle when it was more of a traditional white, small town and disappointed that it had changed so much in terms of a shrinking white population. But evidently he never thought the town where his relatives spent most of their lives in was ever really worth much compared to this new, mostly Somali and Latino “paradise” he recently discovered on his latest visit.

For whites with any degree of racial self-respect that still remains, this article in “The New York Times” should not only be a wake-up call to the reality of white racial replacement, but the role that most “fellow whites,” such as Friedman, are playing in pushing this program forward.

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