{"id":75575,"date":"2020-10-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75575"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"the-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75575","title":{"rendered":"The Inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Don’t let the title – or the fact that it’s in the generally unforgiveable Slate<\/em>, for that matter – put you off from reading this piece, “The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd<\/a> “. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This piece captures not only the history of CUP Foods, the South Minneapolis bodega whose employee called 911 on George Floyd last Memorial Day, a Palestinian immigrant family that’s worked a couple of generations of butts off to succeed in a “transitioning” neighborhood through a couple of waves of blight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than that, it captures the successive waves of fervid racism (Black on Arab, Black on European, Arab and<\/em> Black on European), community spirit, delusion, and the unlikely trifecta of community spirit infused with delusion and racism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toussaint Morrison, a Black Lives Matter organizer in Minneapolis, said he doesn\u2019t actually see any problem with CUP Foods reopening. But he doesn\u2019t necessarily think anyone should shop there…On CUP Foods reopening, he said, \u201cI say get a Black-owned corner store near there, and say shop here. We\u2019ll beat all of their prices. Even if we lose money, whatever.\u201d The point, he said, is to keep Black money in the Black community: \u201cWhether they open or not, it\u2019s on us as a community to not buy their shit. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So – far from dismissing it because of a “woke” copy-editor’s inelegant titling, or its laughable origins (Slate<\/em>, for flock’s sake), I urge you to read it as a guide to everything that’s going to slowly strangle Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to maybe hang onto it as a time capsule showing future generatons how “community” became impossible. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t let the title – or the fact that it’s in the generally unforgiveable Slate, for that matter – put you off from reading this piece, “The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd “. This piece captures not only the history of CUP Foods, the South Minneapolis bodega whose employee called 911 on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,24,54,17,377],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-75575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-culture-war","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-minneapolis","category-the-second-civil-war","tag-george-floyd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75597,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75575\/revisions\/75597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}