An Open Letter to My Neighbors
From a Naturalized Immigrant Citizen
To my neighbors in Minneapolis,
I write this not as a politician or an activist, but as a naturalized American citizen who chose this country deliberately and who chose this city because I believed in its people.
Half of my family fled Venezuela. I watched a beautiful country unravel after the government encouraged citizens to turn on one another, excuse corruption, and treat chaos as moral virtue. Small businesses were vilified. Workers were radicalized. Accountability disappeared. What followed was not justice it was collapse.
Today, my family owns a small business here in Minneapolis. We employ 24 people parents supporting families and students working their way through school. During the recent civil unrest in the Twin Cities, our business was vandalized. One of our doors was smashed. We are now operating in the red.
And we are not alone.
Beloved neighborhood businesses like Lu’s Sandwich Shop and TRAHNS Barbershop, along with many others near the recent incident, are also struggling or no longer profitable. These are immigrant-owned businesses. Community businesses. Places that employ and serve the very neighbors everyone claims to be standing up for.
This is the part of the story that rarely makes headlines.
I am deeply concerned by the growing acceptance of rhetoric that frames our neighbors as enemies, our institutions as illegitimate, and our city as a battlefield. When leaders including Tim Walz use language suggesting we are “at war” with the federal government, it is destructive. Words like that do not protect communities. They escalate tension, legitimize chaos, and place working families directly in harm’s way.
I became an American because this country is built on the rule of law, not rule by mob. On accountability, not excuses. On peaceful disagreement, not intimidation. When ideology replaces these principles, it is always ordinary people workers, shop owners, students who pay the price.
I ask my neighbors to pause and reflect.
If you have never lived under authoritarian systems, please listen to those of us who have. What may feel like righteous anger or symbolic resistance can quickly become something far darker. I have seen how this story ends. It does not end with more freedom, more equality, or more dignity.
It ends with fear, silence, and loss.
Minneapolis deserves better. Our neighbors deserve better. And the people who wake up every day trying to build honest lives deserve leaders and fellow citizens who choose de-escalation, accountability, and community over division.
With respect and sincerity,
A Naturalized Immigrant Citizen and Your Neighbor
🚨The Republican TRAITORS who voted NO and sided with the radical left:
• Thom Tillis (NC)
• Lisa Murkowski (AK)
• Mitch McConnell (KY)
• Susan Collins (ME)
These career swamp creatures don’t want secure elections. They want open borders, non-citizen voting, and rigged outcomes that keep them in power.
You are TRAITORS to the American people and to President Trump’s agenda.
MAGA will remember every single name. Primary these sellouts into oblivion. Their days are numbered.
Today should be Richard Best Day. Piloting a Dautless dive bomber, he sank two japanese carriers in battle of Midway.
He led his squadron in the attack despite an oxygen system malunction that burned his lungs and permanently disabled him. Hall of Fame American Hero. Unbeatable.
Western civilizations are the most diverse people in the world. We are redheads, blondes & brunettes, blue, green and brown eyed, from all backgrounds
The rest of the world is just brown.
We're not the ones that need fucking 'Diversity'
Fuck off with that shit, racist assholes🖕
Janee' Kassanavoid (born January 19, 1995) is an Native American track and field athlete who specializes in the hammer throw.
Professional career
Kassanavoid set her personal best of 78.00 m (255 ft 10 in) on April 30, 2022, in Tucson, Arizona. On July 17, 2022, at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Kassanavoid won the bronze medal with a distance of 74.86 m. She is Native American—a member of the Comanche Nation—making her the first Native American woman to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships