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"Living a black life in Minneapolis means sitting in disparity between your good-natured neighbors and a system of structural racism and disenfranchisement enforced through policy, white silence, and police violence,"
@JustinNXT writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Minnesota is full of people who talk about racial justice but do nothing.
Falcon Heights City Council members openly admitted on the record that they knew about police racial profiling but said or did nothing before Philando Castile was murdered in 2016.
falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
"She had known when she was on the council that there was a problem with racial profiling. She has the responsibility to ask questions and to get these answers, but she didn’t do it when she was on the council."
Pathetic.
The University of Minnesota provides separate (segregated) housing for undergraduate students in its honors program. For weeks I asked them for the demographic data. Just last week Vice Provost Robert McMaster wrote me that the honors program was less than 1% black.
Pathetic.

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