In a recent article The Heart of the Uprising in Minneapolis in New Yorker, reporter Luke Mogelson writes that the thirty-eighth Street and Chicago Avenue was the site of an uninterrupted public vigil, designated by signs and banners as “sacred ground” after the death of George Floyd in police custody.

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In another Washington Post article reporter Tracy Jan, who covers on intersection of race and the economy for the Post writes Minneapolis had progressive policies, but its economy still left black families behind. According to community advocates, structural racism persisted despite all the ‘good intentions,’ writes Tracy Jan.

“The Twin Cities once drew black families fleeing racism in the Jim Crow South, and with their combination of progressive policies and prosperity, regularly rank among the best places to live in America.”

“Taxes, for decades, have been redistributed from wealthy suburbs to poorer communities to combat inequality — an effort bolstered in recent years by raising state income taxes on the rich. The result: more money for schools, affordable housing and social services in lower-income neighborhoods.”

“But the prosperity fueled by the region’s Fortune 500 companies and progressive policies has not translated into economic equality. Instead, the wealth gap between Minneapolis’s largely white population and the city’s black residents has deepened, producing some of the nation’s widest racial disparities in income, employment and homeownership.”

This note post is part of learning race & inequality in US series inspired by recent protests in US and around the world. Cover image source: Screenshot from google maps.