You wanna talk about looting in Saint Paul today? Talk about why they built 94 and the Midway Target where they did.
I say this for people outside the cities, especially fellow non-Black folks:
Every place this uprising has gone is deliberate and connected to the legacy of violence, looting, and murder the Twin Cities has inflicted on the Black community, among others. https://libguides.mnhs.org/rondo
Every place this uprising has gone is deliberate and connected to the legacy of violence, looting, and murder the Twin Cities has inflicted on the Black community, among others. https://libguides.mnhs.org/rondo
"By the 1930s Rondo was the heart of St. Paul’s African American community... by the late 1950s this tight-knit community would be shattered by the construction of Interstate 94...1 in every 8 African Americans in St. Paul lost a home to I-94. Many businesses never re-opened."