By the time the CRT School Shooting happened near my house I’d been writing on taboos, moral movements and Minnesota for nearly five years. I realized Vatican II, the ProLife Movement and Marxist Feminism are all global movements and countless moral panics, started by white Minnesotans.
I realized I wasn’t giving much attention to the moral movement contributions of Black Minnesotans.
Long before Deray McKesson drove to Ferguson to cofound Black Lives Matter, lectured Steven Colbert on his white privilege, or before George Floyd catalyzed the biggest, most destructive moral movement in history, there were others.
While I’ve written about my Black Historian friend. (RIP Mr. Edwards) I’ve never really examined the importance of Black History Month on Minnesota Moral Movements.
I was surprised to find out the significance of Minnesota which is still 85% white.
Roy Wilkins / Emmett Till
Notably, 1923 University of Minnesota graduate Roy Wilkins, from St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood wrote the N.A.A.C.P. viral press release the day Emmett Till’s body was discovered. He was also a speaker and organizer of the March on Washington. While the FBI officially closed the Emmett Till case in Dec. 2021, the Minnesota State Legislature still has proposed Emmett Till legislation pending.
Alex Haley
Alex Haley was at Macalester College when their World Press Institute paid him to write “Roots” which also went viral from manuscript to international bestseller and miniseries in 18 months.
It rewrote history.
Readers familiar with the Marxist Feminist Duluth Model might not be surprised to know Duluth, Minnesota was also the scene of a public lynching in 1920.
Critical Race Theory is Just Black History Month
While Critical Gender Theory, also from Minnesota has been in schools since I was a student in the 1970’s conservatives finally started drawing the line at Race Marxism. Many Marxists said CRT is just Black history.
In many ways they were right.
From the Scottsboro Boys, to the Marxist Feminists in the Black Liberation Movement to the trained Marxists of Black Lives Matter, Communist organizing and Marxist tactics have been a long, established tradition and pathway to wealth and fame for many educated Blacks.
According to Vladmir Putin, who’s day job used to be destroying the West, today’s woke_mind_virus has already been tried in his native Russia.
Crime, Policing and Family Court
Minnesota, once famous for Prince, Bob Dylan, the Mayo Clinic, Monty Python, Peanuts and Pixar is now famous for Policing. Many people believe policing and legal issues are only a problem for a minority of people.
Minneapolis has a number of police activists, including, my hero Chuck Turchick who’s been attending every city council and public safety meeting and emailing city leaders every week since the Mohamed Noor verdict.
They are super not good at listening and learning from previous errors.
Additionally, they’re just as bad at transparency, even when famous Black Lives Matter Lawyers are involved. It’s seems like self awareness is not necessarily a strong suit either.
Fortunately, they make up for this with virtue signaling, theatrics and histrionics.
There are some signs of progress, Minnesota recently convicted Brooklyn Center Duluth Model Practitioner, Kim Potter to prison for the killing of Daunte Wright. Mr. Wright who had a bench warrant after being accused of harming a woman and order for protection, among other things too lengthy to mention here.
While systemic fatherlessness creates huge problems two of the most high profile murders in Minnesota this month, Amir Locke and Jahmir Rice both had fathers living in the home.
Technically, Cortez Rice was in the workhouse for threatening and harassing Regina Chou who was the judge in the Kim Potter case when his son was killed.
Men’s Movement and Black History Month
While the Women’s movement historically had some problems with race, white women have been the biggest beneficiaries of college entrance and Affirmative Action, by contrast, the Men’s Movement invited comedian Tommy Sotomayor to keynote their biggest ICMI event in history.
False Accusations, family court disparities and the difficulty of getting a fair trial are common interests between the Men’s movement and most Black men that I’ve met.
As the men’s movement grows, they could learn a lot by studying issues the Black Civil Rights Movement experienced with government surveillance, the media, constructive disagreement, what types of narratives grow movements and how to maintain a sense of humor.
