A City’s Inexorable Decline
Over the past year, Minneapolis has joined Chicago, Portland, Baltimore, Seattle, Detroit and St. Louis as cities whose futures look bleak on account of out-of-control crime. Scott wrote this afternoon about the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s tentative and belated acknowledgement that the city’s residents need to support their police department rather than interfering with attempted arrests. That would be a start, I guess.
But Minneapolis’s decline is precipitous and the hour is late. The Star Tribune itself reported this morning that Minneapolis is “bringing in outside help” from both state and federal agencies after four more people were murdered over the weekend.
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Demonstrators gather near the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington, Friday Aug. 28, 2020, in Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool via AP)
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A man walks in the Reflecting Pool during the March on Washington, Friday Aug. 28, 2020, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have A Dream speech. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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People sitting social distanced, listen to speakers during the March on Washington, Friday Aug. 28, 2020, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. s I Have A Dream speech in Washington, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
A year ago, all of us were transfixed by the video footage of the white cop with his knee on the black guyâs neck for that interminable length of time. Then we waited for the riots. We knew they were coming.
They came, all right, and they spread across the country, and they re-erupted throughout the year with nearly every perceived police transgression against a black male. The agenda-driven Leftmedia insisted that the riots were in fact âmostly peaceful protests,â which, of course, was a demonstrable and despicable lie.
Speaking of lies, the ostensible reason behind the riots was to draw attention to and eradicate the scourge of âsystemic racismâ. But itâs a tall order to eradicate something that lives mostly in the fever dreams of white leftists.
Con actos y vigilias, conmemorarán hoy el primer aniversario del asesinato y el presidente Joe Biden recibirá a la familia del afroestadounidense cuya muerte desató protestas contra el racismo y puso bajo la lupa las prácticas policiales en todo el mundo. Floyd murió el 25 de mayo pasado en la norteña ciudad de Minneapolis, en […]
Minnesota Honors George Floyd
The deification of George Floyd, armed robber, drug addict and petty criminal, continues apace. Yesterday Minnesota’s Governor, Tim Walz, sent this letter to all state employees:
Walz refers to “generations of systemic racism that have plagued our state.” Can he possibly be serious? What on Earth is he talking about? As recently as 1980, Minnesota’s population was barely 1 percent African-American. Since then the black population has grown somewhat, mostly as a result of lavish welfare benefits and the state’s welcoming attitude toward tens or hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees. What, exactly, did the generations of systemic racism consist of?