Renewed interest in Tyson’s (failed) Somali experiment in Emporia, KS

In the wake of the news from Shelbyville, TN last week about Tyson’s Food scrapping the Labor Day holiday in favor of a Muslim holiday, we have had a flood of visitors to RRW and many are interested in what happened in Emporia, KS.  

Reader Robert sent us this post from a blog called “Maggie’s Notebook” which begins: 

Tyson Foods’ blatant disregard for the institutions of America is worse than we thought – and it stretches outside just the Shelbyville, TN plant.

Here’s how the Topeka Capital-Journal under the heading “Somalis arrive in Emporia with tuberculosis” describes the “exotic, new arrivals:”

Yes, Maggie, it was definitely a critical point in the controversy in that city.  Here is our post on the TB death at Tyson’s.

For the ambitious reader we have referred to Emporia, KS in 34 posts and you can review those here.  At one point the citizens were so upset by the influx of Somalis that a public meeting was called to air grievances (that was in November).  The bottomline is that Tyson’s closed (well, nearly closed) it’s Emporia meat packing plant in January of this year and moved the Somalis out.

I’ve been hearing suggestions that Shelbyville is due for a public meeting.  We had one in Hagerstown, near where we live, last September (see VDARE on our meeting here).  I’m all for putting all the information out to the public and letting the citizens of a community hear all the facts and have some say in the sort of community they want.   The federal government working with businesses like Tyson’s Food shouldn’t be able to dictate the character of a city or town.

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