Minneapolis readers, how are you? We’re watching the information and excited 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 fuel right into a crowd of scholars, and hauled off two lecturers and a scholar. Elliott Payne, the president of the Metropolis Council, instructed the New York Occasions that “it seems like a army occupation.”
This morning, I requested my good friend how issues had been feeling within the metropolis, and right here was his reply:
“Scary. Unhappy. Enraging. I don’t imagine 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 form 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/bathroom 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 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 folks attempting to work round right here? Hey, whenever you guys are accomplished 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 ultimately prevail.”
I’d love to listen to, if you happen to’re up for sharing: How are you feeling, if you happen to’re in Minnesota? How are you feeling, if you happen to’re watching the information from elsewhere? What information sources or retailers do you discover useful? (We usually 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 at all times.
(Picture of a memorial for Renee Good taken by Charly Triballeau/Agence France-Presse.)
