The term "Minnesota nice" isn't a complete fabrication.
It's just a white lie.
The Minnesota paradox: how race divides prosperous Minneapolis theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…
People love to talk about how progressive and politically correct they are in Minnesota.
But the minute you challenge what people do rather than just say about what they believe, many become very defensive.
On no issue is this more obvious than race.
A University Honors Program with less than 1% black enrollment (and its own segregated student housing) defended by "progressive"administrators and a website that shills about diversity.
Give me a break.
A police force that is 9% African American for a city that is 18% African American.
Many police officers live out in Trump country and drive in to work.
A police union boss who sells "Cops for Trump" T-shirts in one of the most liberal cities in the U.S.
Give me another break.
Median income of black families in Minneapolis less than half that of whites.
Shameful.
Nothing reeks of Minnesota hypocrisy more than Falcon Heights 2016.
City Council members admit on the record to knowing about police racial profiling but not saying anything before Philando Castile was murdered, then lecture on their own "white privilege."
falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
George Floyd's murder could have been prevented.
In Minneapolis in 2020, as in Falcon Heights in 2016, the politicians knew about racial profiling by police. They talked about reform, but in the end nobody wanted to speak out or mess with the powerful police union.
Shameful.
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