Let's address these.
1. The new flag does not look like the Somali flag.
This is Minnesota's flag:
The Somali flag:
The stars are not the same and the blue shades of color are not the same.
The dark blue on the Minnesota flag represents the shape of the state. The star is the North Star. This had to do with Minnesota's state motto: The Star of the North. And the Blue represents the many lakes of Minnesota. If you don't know, the reason the LA Lakers are called Lakers is because the franchise started in Minneapolis. There are not that many lakes around Los Angeles. The NBA encouraged the LA Lakers not to change the name because it was the first dynasty franchise in NBA history. So they kept the name. Minnesota is a state full of lakes. It's nickname is "Land of 10,000 lakes"
The Somali Flag is a star on a light blue background. The light blue is the color of the United Nations who helped them gain independence. The star is five pointed and represents the five Somali homelands.
2. They changed their flag because the old one was offensive to Native Americans. The seal on it was copied from a seal from a flag in the 1800s and at that time many seals of western states celebrated manifest destiny. The seal depicted a Native American on horseback riding off into the sunset and looking back at a white woman plowing a field with a gun by her side. Kind of subtle...I guess. The change was requested by a group of high school students to a member of their state legislature. In 2022, he and another member submitted a bill to change the flag. He had been trying to get it changed since 2017. Walz help passed the bill and that's the only involvement he had in it. They asked for submission of different designs. Ultimately the one they have now was chosen. The start of trying to change their flag was before Walz was elected governor. The change occurred while he was governor.
Quite a leap here.
This is false like a lot of the stuff that conservatives are reading on Twitter these days. It started on 4chan, worked its way to Twitter and then found it's way to the Dawgchat. I don't expect this to be the last thing talked about here with a similar path.