Chilling irony: death of Minnesota civil rights champion while Minnesota jury deliberates

[struggle4progress]

By Alan Steinberg
April 20, 2021, 8:04 am

... The famed Kerner Commission in 1968 found that racist white police brutality was the primary cause of the racial conflict that spread throughout America from 1965 through 1968. When one views the film of Derek Chauvin’s knee on the neck of George Floyd on Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis in May, 2020, it is all too obvious that the toxic cancer of systemic racism remains unabated in the police community. Accordingly, an emotion of despair accompanied my feeling of apprehension ...

The continuing electoral success of Humphrey and Mondale in Minnesota gave the state the image of being the most racially tolerant state in the nation. How ironic and jarring it was this past week to hear two Minnesota African-American mayors, Melvin Carter in St. Paul and Mike Elliott in Brooklyn Center express fears for their own personal safety ...

https://www.insidernj.com/chilling-irony-death-minnesota-civil-rights-champion-walter-mondale-minnesota-jury-deliberates-chauvin-case/

[dflprincess]

1. Humphrey, Mondale, & Wellstone

Represented who we want to be, who we should be but, sadly not who we are after all.

[struggle4progress]

2. America is a work in progress, and it will always be a work in progress:

it is a daily effort, like eating and exercising. We can do the necessary work almost every day and progress -- or we can take too extended a vacation and watch all our progress slip away.