After last episode featuring the unwaveringly positive and wonderful Jeff Sidner, I felt compelled to feature another Black Minneapolitan who has had a different experience with the MPD. Meet the also wonderful Elias Lemon. You can join him on Facebook here (make sure to include a note indicating you heard him on the show): https://www.facebook.com/elias.lemon.3
Instead of Three Good Things, here are Three Good Links to Help White People Get Smarter About Police Violence and Anti-Racism:
1. A very simple animated explainer on systemic racism. Basic enough for kids, clear enough for grownups who still deny its existence. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2529359743953445
2. Project Implicit. You can take an implicit bias test here to see how bad yours is. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
3. NY Times Opinion Piece on why white people might think twice before sending those "comforting" texts to their black friend(s). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/whites-anti-blackness-protests.html
Want to help Minneapolis with your wallet? Here are some good options:
Reclaim the Block is devoted to defunding MPD and redirecting resources to solutions that will actually keep people safer. https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/
Campaign Zero is devoted to ending police violence. joincampaignzero.org
We Love Lake Street has a fund to rebuild Lake Street and support the businesses who have been destroyed. shorturl.at/brxDV
WBC and Northside Funders Group have started a fund to rebuild North Minneapolis. shorturl.at/dsxZ2
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