Minneapolis readers, how are you? We’re watching the information and enthusiastic about you on a regular basis. My good friend, who lives in south Minneapolis, instructed me that ICE got here to his daughter’s faculty final week; brokers threw the vice principal on the bottom, shot tear gasoline right into a crowd of scholars, and hauled off two academics and a pupil. Elliott Payne, the president of the Metropolis Council, instructed the New York Instances that “it appears like a army occupation.”
This morning, I requested my good friend 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 neighborhood spirit right here, and we’re doing our greatest to look out for one another. There are occasions once I form of numb out to the present injustices, after which I’ll watch a video and simply bawl. I really feel totally different impulses at totally different occasions. My strongest intuition is to ask ‘Who can I feed?’ Who’s struggling proper now? The varsity is amassing meals/rest room paper/fundamentals for people who find themselves scared to depart their houses. I even have a powerful intuition to be a witness and guarantee my children/neighbors are protected. My mind can address 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 executed right here, may you go as much as the border and cease the ounce of fentanyl coming down from Canada?’ I actually hope cooler, kinder heads will ultimately prevail.”
I’d love to listen to, in the event you’re up for sharing: How are you feeling, in the event you’re in Minnesota? How are you feeling, in the event you’re watching the information from elsewhere? What information sources or retailers do you discover useful? (We repeatedly take heed to The Day by 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.
(Picture of a memorial for Renee Good taken by Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse.)
