The state of Minnesota passed anti-lynching legislation in April 1921. One hundreds years later, in April 2021, the trial of Derek Chauvin showed us not much had changed since the Duluth Lynchings.
Minnesotans are really nice people. We’re just not that into due process for men. Contrary to the repeated statements of State Representative John Thompson, three circus workers were the only Black lynchings in MN.
All of the other 17 documented lynchings were white or Native American.
This doesn’t include the Sioux Uprising, which was the largest single day mass execution in US History. 38 Lakota Sioux were executed on Boxing Day 1862. 2,000 US troops were brought out to protect the prisoners, who’d been tried, but were not being executed, from the crowd of 10’s of 1000’s Minnesotans braving the cold to see dead body justice.
This also doesn’t include men, like Adam Johnson, whose severed head was left on a bench and the rest of his dismembered body was spread throughout NE Mpls to send someone a message. Johnson, 36, had spent his entire adult life on Minnesota’s Sex Offender Registry for having sex with a family member as a teenager.
His killer has not been found, but few are demanding justice. Local Teachers, Paraprofessional Union Stewards, and feminist activists all decried his “white privilege” at having his juvenile plea deal left out of local news reports.
When he was a teenager, he diddled his cousin and never sexually reoffended. Someone cut his head off and spread his dismembered body around the city almost 20 years later.
Due process for men is costly, time-consuming, and doesn’t give the crowd nullifying effects of watching a man die, screaming for breath, having his neck broken, pissing himself, or allowing brave women to publicly humiliate him after he’s dead.
I’ve written before that Minnesota exported Sex Offender Registries to the rest of the world following outrage following a highly-publicised, botched kidnapping investigation. The Wetterling Act passed as part of the 1994 Clinton Crime Bill or Biden Crime Law, that Black Lives Matter demanded be nullified.
That same year, many 100’s of millions of dollars began to be allocated for the prosecution of the Violence Against Women Act.
Developed by Marxist Feminists at the College of St. Scholastica, the model presumes that men are guilty of controlling women using a spectrum of violence, and women are only ever violent in self defense against an Oppressive Patriarchy.
Many millions have since been spent extending the work begun in Mankato and Duluth using what is called the Duluth Model, which became part of Praxis International’s Blueprint for Public Safety which brought it to major cities near you.
Here’s a test to run. Ask 100 people whether they think penalties for sex offenders should be higher in your state.
After they’ve answered, ask them if they know what the current penalties are.
The answers to those two questions are enlightening.
Minnesota Senators and Congressmen have proposed an act to increase budgets for police departments that adopt “victim centered,” “data driven” methods, “proven to “increase the number of sexual assault convictions.”
The Abby Honold Act is going to pass the US Congress and US Senate with Bipartisan support because it is politically incorrect, advertiser-friendly, kid tested, and mother approved, but what kind of meat grinder will this open up?
