Marching With One Message: “We Are One”

Community members from the FM area are standing up to hate. 

People from the FM area say they’re tired of seeing hate and violence make up the world’s day-to-day events.

So car horns blared and drivers cheered on as marchers peacefully paraded down Main Avenue chanting “We Are One” for the first ever FM unity march.

Three powerful words echoed down the streets of Main Avenue reminding the people of Fargo-Moorhead, love trumps hate.

“I want my daughter to grow up in a community of love and not hate and if I want that to happen I have to make that happen,” says First Congregational Christ Church Reverend Michelle Webber. 

As acts of violence and hate dominate the headlines, people from the FM community want to make sure words of hate go away.

“This is one community, one love and one unity,” says Afro American Society Program Coordinator, Hamida Dakane. 

Even when acts of hate continue.

“Students and teachers who call you names because you wear hijab or put your picture on social media with the word terrorist,” says Rev. Webber. 

Marchers keep marching.

“What you’re reading in our nation that is not who America is. It is not,” says Moorhead Mayor, May Del Rae Williams. 

Showing that hatred will never be accepted.

“There’s no hate in Fargo Moorhead area rather we have more love and unity as you can see the crowd around,” says Dakane. 

A crowd made up of all religions, colors and backgrounds. A crowd with one message.

After a Grand Forks Somali restaurant was torched this week, march leaders are encouraging FM neighbors to support locally owned Somali restaurants including:

Rugsan Cuisine: 2424 13th Ave. S #101, Fargo

Somali Business Center Cafe: 122 23rd St S, Fargo