To our American friends: The post from Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, known as “Tommy Robinson,” presents a selective narrative that risks heightening racial tensions, reinforced by racially derogatory imagery mocking a Somali individual. Below is a fact-based assessment. Robinson implies Somali employment data is misleading. The ONS Census 2021 (updated 4 October 2023) confirms that 34.1% of Somali-born adults aged 16–64 are employed, with 10.3% unemployed and 47.1% classified as economically inactive. The ONS is clear that “economic inactivity” includes students, unpaid carers, and recent arrivals in integration programmes—context he omits, misrepresenting it as unwillingness to work. Robinson cites the 2017 Bristol case in which 13 Somali men were convicted of child sexual exploitation (CSE) involving girls as young as 13. However, police records from the same investigation identified 49 suspects from diverse ethnic backgrounds, including White British individuals, with no single group dominant. This aligns with national analyses of CSE patterns. Robinson ignores widely documented structural challenges affecting Somali communities, including language barriers, disrupted education, and conflict-driven displacement, which shape migration patterns and welfare reliance. His imagery implies cultural failings despite public condemnation of CSE by Somali community organisations. Immigration debates rightly raise safeguarding and vetting concerns. But official data consistently shows that CSE is a cross-ethnic crime, not a problem attributable to any one community. His selective focus, combined with demeaning imagery, aligns with Yaxley-Lennon’s public record, which includes multiple convictions for violence and fraud, and a long history of activism built around civilisational or “counter-jihad” narratives—amplifying isolated facts to support racialised conclusions. Employment inequality and child sexual exploitation demand evidence-based discussion, not distortion or racially charged imagery—context is key. His post fuels division, not understanding. Happy New Year.