Minneapolis readers, how are you? We’re watching the information and desirous about you on a regular basis. My pal, who lives in south Minneapolis, informed me that ICE got here to his daughter’s college final week; brokers threw the vice principal on the bottom, shot tear fuel right into a crowd of scholars, and hauled off two academics and a scholar. Elliott Payne, the president of the Metropolis Council, informed the New York Instances that “it seems like a army occupation.”
This morning, I requested my pal how issues have been feeling within the metropolis, and right here was his reply:
“Scary. Unhappy. Enraging. I don’t consider these ICE techniques will ever look good in historical past. There’s a robust group spirit right here, and we’re doing our greatest to look out for one another. There are occasions once I type of numb out to the present injustices, after which I’ll watch a video and simply bawl. I really feel completely different impulses at completely different occasions. My strongest intuition is to ask ‘Who can I feed?’ Who’s struggling proper now? The college is gathering meals/rest room paper/fundamentals for people who find themselves scared to go away their properties. I even have a powerful intuition to be a witness and guarantee my youngsters/neighbors are secure. My mind can deal with the absurdity of this inhumane upside-down world by assembly it with extra absurdity. Proper now as a substitute of hollering ‘fuck you,’ I fantasize about going as much as ICE brokers, asking a barrage of dumb questions like, ‘So, what do you want most about your job? Hey, are you able to guys please cease all of the individuals making an attempt to work round right here? Hey, if you guys are finished right here, might you go as much as the border and cease the ounces of fentanyl coming down from Canada?’ I actually hope cooler, kinder heads will finally prevail.”
I’d love to listen to, should you’re up for sharing: How are you feeling, should you’re in Minnesota? How are you feeling, should you’re watching the information from elsewhere? What information sources or retailers do you discover useful? (We recurrently hearken to The Each day and Pod Save America.) And listed below are methods to assist these in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Sending a lot love, as all the time.
(Photograph of a memorial for Renee Good taken by Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse.)
