"Your too white to make it afterall!"
Posted on 04/22/2021 3:16:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Minneapolis is my home. My happiest memories are here. It’s where I learned to ride a bike, had my first date, received my high school diploma.
But today, I’m too afraid to even walk in my neighborhood by myself.
The ACE Hardware down the street? The one that I used to bike to in the summer? Robbed twice in the past five days.
The Walgreens next to my elementary school? Molotov cocktail thrown into it.
The Lake Harriet Bandshell, where we spent countless Mother’s Days? Homeless encampment popped up next door.
These are the things you don’t read about in the news.
Ten minutes from my house, at 38th and Chicago, there is still an autonomous zone. Police are not allowed to enter. Residents have died because medical authorities couldn’t get through, and carjackers (of which there are MANY) will speed into the zone to escape officer pursuit.
My favorite dinner theater canceled its production of Cinderella because it was “too white.”
My church — my beloved, tiny, Lutheran church — organized social justice marches for our congregation while refusing to reinstate in-person services (they’re still virtual, by the way).
And how about the week of the 2020 riots?
We lived under a curfew for days while looters seemingly roamed freely. Friends fled their home at 3:30 a.m. because the auto parts store behind them was on fire. And then we watched in horror as our City Council members demanded that the city defund the police — as they hired armed security for themselves.
I no longer recognize Minneapolis. I no longer want to live here. We are done, and I am leaving.
I’ve spent the past year watching this city crumble. Burning it wasn’t enough, I guess. Every day, I watched another piece of sanity and stability fall to the hysterical, bloodthirsty, self-righteous mob.
You distinguish between rioters and protestors? Racist. You do not want Marxist-inspired racial justice theories to be promoted in schools? Racist. You thought that maybe “Justice for George Floyd” should be left to the courts, and not mob rule? Super, super racist.
And where were our leaders providing stability and calm and confidence in the system? Nowhere to be found. What we did find were crazed politicians spouting fire and brimstone (I’m looking at you, Maxine Waters and John Thompson) and leaving us to pay the price.
Let me be clear: this city’s demise wasn’t just violent protests and burning buildings, or crime skyrocketing and businesses fleeing. It was also political indoctrination, hypocritical leadership, and the suppression of oppositional thought.
Any condemnation of the violence was denounced as “racist.” Billboards stating simply “Support MN Police” were brutally vandalized. Schools supported BLM walkouts for their students, then shut down in-person classes for fear of violent riots.
And all of this happened against the backdrop of our illogical, inconsistent, overly oppressive COVID-19 restrictions.
It’s easy to look at (for lack of a better word) disaster zones like these and mentally distance yourself from them. Yeah, that’s awful, but those people choose to live there. They’re the ones electing these leaders. This is their problem.
Yeah, it is. It is our problem.
And I can’t help but look around and wonder, “What happened here? Where exactly did it all go wrong?”
Was it the liberal mob? Identity politics? The cries of “RACIST!” when someone disagreed with a particular reaction or policy?
Was it conservative silence as the loudest voices got more and more radical?
Was it our acceptance that “we live in a blue area, this is just the way things are?”
How did it all happen so fast?
Whatever it was, I’m leaving this dark, surreal, twisted version of Minneapolis on Friday. And I pray to God that I never have to come back.
My roots in Idaho go back 101 years, so I am much more Idahoan than most everybody else in the state. And my politics (and my wife’s politics) are helping push Idaho even MORE in the conservative direction.
There IS a lot of resentment toward out-of-staters in ID. You have to prove your bona fides.
She was a wet dream for me on the Dick Van Dyke show
"Your too white to make it afterall!"
Have you been to portland Maine and compared how it is now to what it used to be?
I actually have been studying Chinese for about a year and a half. Work on memorizing Chinese characters at night to take my mind off of all the c**p that is going on in our country. Also have studied Korean for about 3 years. Understand Japanese but too embarrassed to speak it.
Minneapolis is not, in any way that matters, part of the United States.
Real Americans should leave. The commies and leftists should stay there and crumble with it.
Maybe, but what normal person could live in that craphole?
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Sorry for this archaic reference but your inclusion of the Jacobins (and by connection, with France’s Louis XIV) made me think we may need a “Marlborough” quality LEADER to retake our country. Perhaps at great cost. Donald Trump may be our time’s Duke of Marlboro.
I’d like to take this opportunity to invite all Freepers who are looking to escape blue states, to take a serious look at Alabama. Our state is deep red and is not on the radar of leftists fleeing blue state crapholes. Believe it or not, Alabama is a beautiful state with everything from beaches to prairies to mountains. Taxes are among the lowest in the country; housing and acreage are very affordable. Please don’t let the media portrayals of us give you pause. Check us out! PM me if you’d like.
I live in a Republican town in a Republican borough in a Republican state. I simply can’t, in any way, relate to her difficulties. What’s going on in Minneapolis simply doesn’t exist here.
The same can be said about the small State of Maryland...the politics so liberal it is disgusting...Sten Hoyer almost 83 and he still thinks he is a spokesperson for the State..and all the other liberal jackass running this State.. smh...so very sad...
I truly believe the residents of Maryland want Freedom from these liberals..and I would not be a bit surprised that the support is fake and phony as other Liberal States...THEY LIE, CHEAT, AND STEAL...
WHEN WILL THIS NATION WAKE UP???
If it was DemocRATS, I can only hope she's learned her lesson.
My message to the decent people currently living in these cities...
You can’t save it.
Get out now while you can still get a buck.
Get far away, and stay away.
If you work there, commute.
Just leave and close the door behind you.
I actually have been studying Chinese for about a year and a half.
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That’s very impressive. I never really became bilingual although I did get close to it after six semesters of Spanish.
LOL...yeah, she should have tried to be less white. A grumpy old frump, perpetually pissed off at the world and everything in it, demanding payoffs from everybody, nose rings and tats, mysterious “gender” — that would have been a real hit show.
When it’s your life-long home, it’s hard to leave. Your friends and family are there. Your familiar surroundings are there. You stay and put up with the crap. Then the crap gets worse. You think “It cannot possibly get any worse” and you stick around. Then the next event happens that drives you deeper into the car-hole. You keep thinking “this is the bottom, no way it can get worse,” but it always does. They keep turning up the burner on the frog-pot until FINALLY some leave.
The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence that followed the Easter Rising, at a time before the British Government decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second Coming" in his first drafts.The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic: In the weeks preceding Yeats's writing of the poem, his pregnant wife Georgie Hyde-Lees caught the virus and was very close to death. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women—in some areas, they had up to a 70 percent death rate. While his wife was convalescing, he wrote "The Second Coming."
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