Minneapolis readers, how are you? We’re watching the news and serious about you on a regular basis. My buddy, who lives in south Minneapolis, instructed me that ICE got here to his daughter’s college 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 scholar. Elliott Payne, the president of the Metropolis Council, instructed the New York Times that “it appears like a army occupation.”
This morning, I requested my buddy how issues have been feeling within the metropolis, and right here was his reply:
“Scary. Unhappy. Enraging. I don’t consider these ICE ways 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 after I type 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 gathering meals/rest room paper/fundamentals for people who find themselves scared to depart their houses. I even have a robust intuition to be a witness and guarantee my children/neighbors are protected. 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 folks making an attempt to work round right here? Hey, whenever you guys are accomplished right here, may 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 shops do you discover useful? (We commonly take heed to The Daily and Pod Save America.) And here are ways to help those 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.)
