![]() ![]() Here, he thought looking at the field, he was a proud Lewiston soccer player.”Īmy Bass does a magical job of weaving the nuanced and complicated local history into the narrative of the current group of Somali immigrants who make up the majority of the championship soccer team. He felt the stereotypes - terrorist, drug dealer, pirate - that had plagued him just a few years ago beginning to disappear. While his community wasn’t perfect, it was better. ‘When you love others,’ she said, ‘sincerely love them, you will eventually get it back.’ Looking at the crowd of Blue Devils fans - white, black, Muslim, Catholic, Somali, Franco - Shobow realized that his mother was right. ![]() ![]() His mother told him then to have a big heart, to have empathy. “He flashed back to when his family first arrived in Lewiston, the days when people told him to leave. ![]()
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