Out of Africa
By AAN Staff
august 29, 2003 03:10 pm
When thousands of Somali and Sudanese
refugees made their way to the American Midwest
in the 1990s, they were often hailed as
success stories. Starting at the bottom of the
economic ladder, they worked double shifts in
menial jobs and carved out lives for themselves
and their families, thankful just to have the
opportunity -- and to be safe from the violence that
plagued their war-torn homelands. But as Pitch
staff writer Kendrick Blackwood reports,
the Somalis and Sudanese brought something
with them besides a tireless work ethic: a culture
in which young men are taught never to back
away from a fight.