Commentary: The Pervasive Smallness of Using Labels to Cause Harm

By: Mikki Morrissette

Outlets: Minnesota Women's Press

Published: October 14, 2026

Words: 1,906

Last Updated: 3 days, 13 hours ago

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Two story threads stood out for me last week, in a conversation with a group of Somali mothers (for an upcoming story). One was about trauma: the renewed fear of people who had fled civil war and were now seeing violent government tactics in their Minnesota neighborhoods — “they wouldn’t ask you questions, they would just surround you. There would be a group of them terrorizing you, pushing you around, yelling, threatening. … We knew …

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