We can’t talk about what’s happening in Minneapolis tonight without talking about what’s happened to Black Minnesotans in the last 4 months. 4 years. 400 years. HALF of Black Minnesotans are unemployed. Record numbers of ppl are experiencing homelessness, food insecurity and all

during a global pandemic. At the start of the summer, another Black man was murdered by police in MN: the state with the highest racial disparities in the nation. That sparked a national reckoning on racism. Now we’re at the end of summer and another Black man was shot by police.

This time in our neighbor state, Wisconsin. The state we share “highest racial disparities” with. Thankfully he survived. And then last night, a white nationalist shot and killed two Wisconsin demonstrators.

Tonight, a hurricane will slam into the South and potentially create climate refugees. There shouldn’t be one single story that doesn’t place what’s happening in MPLS tonight in the context of what *is happening*.