Minneapolis isn't looking too good these days.

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a group of young black entrepreneurs have owned a office building in uptown minneapolis for over a year& got racially profiled at the private gym today🤦🏾‍♀️smh

[SharonClark]

1. They own an office building or they have an office in the building?

[sop]

2. Well, here's another racist white guy in Minneapolis who just got his whole life turned upside down.

[Blecht]

3. Asshole

Total fucking asshole.

[smirkymonkey]

11. Another face badly in need of a fist.

God, he was so incredibly "hateable". Not sure if that is even a word, but it was the first thing that came to mind.

[roamer65]

4. Do they own the building with the gym in it?

If so, dumb ass racist is gonna have a rough time explaining it away.

[dalton99a]

5. But they THREATENED him!

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8. It appears he has a problem with non-white people

Venture capitalist and his Lake Calhoun neighbors unimpressed by Native Americans

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 by Mike Mullen in News

Tom Austin is not a historian, a sociologist, or a political scientist.

Readers of this morning's Star Tribune opinion section will recognize as much, probably well before they reach the tagline of Austin's guest column, which labels him as the "CEO and managing partner of the F2 Group, a venture capital and private equity firm in Minneapolis."

And yet, somehow, Austin feels qualified to try his hand at both historical analysis and public opinion research. The results are very bad.

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Tom Austin continues:

These people raised a good question: What exactly have the Dakota Indians done that is a positive contribution to all Minnesotans? What is the heroism or accomplishment that we are recognizing in order to justify renaming the lake to Bde Maka Ska? Unfortunately, nobody had any answers.

Let's stop Tom here again, briefly, to just acknowledge how fucking awful that paragraph was.

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http://www.citypages.com/news/venture-capitalist-and-his-lake-calhoun-neighbors-unimpressed-by-native-americans/454492023

[dalton99a]

10. +1

Not every word document some rich jackass sends you needs to be printed in the newspaper.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. 'Twas ever thus.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. This guy also led the "resistance" against removing the name of a slave-owning South Carolinian

from a lake in Minneapolis and giving it the Lakota/Dakota name Bde Maka Ska.

[catbyte]

9. Yeah. Here's his awful OP-Ed about it.

https://m.startribune.com/i-asked-350-people-who-live-along-or-near-lake-calhoun-about-renaming-it/454350493/

[sop]

13. Tom Austin, CEO and managing partner of the F2 Group

His op-ed smacks of that particular brand of white priviledge and genteel racism so common in the corporate world today.

[cwydro]

12. sad as this is, and it IS sad.

I'm glad that people are seeing racism is not a problem limited to the south.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Dick Gregory: "Personally, I've never seen much difference between the South and the North. Down

South, white folks don’t care how close I get as long as I don’t get too big. Up North, white folks don’t care how big I get, as long as I don’t get too close.”

[cwydro]

15. Good quote. A lot of truth in that, I'm sure.

In my experience, I've lived with, worked with, played with, slept with, been (and am) neighbors with black folks all my life.

I saw much more racism in the times I've spent up north than I ever have here.

[rockfordfile]

16. Racism doesn't belong in the USA

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. The USA was built on racism.

[UTUSN]

18. "a tenant"? - a.k.a., a self-appointed vigilante on a rampage thinking he speaks for *everybody*

[Celerity]

19. Minnesota nice!!