{"id":77660,"date":"2021-04-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77660"},"modified":"2021-04-27T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T12:45:17","slug":"perspective-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77660","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Writer for The College Fix <\/em>and her story<\/a> – she’s leaving MInneapolis – has gone fairly viral in recent days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minneapolis is my home. My happiest memories are here. It\u2019s where I learned to ride a bike, had my first date, received my high school diploma.<\/p>

But today, I\u2019m too afraid to even walk in my neighborhood by myself.<\/p>

The ACE Hardware down the street? The one that I used to bike to in the summer? Robbed twice in the past five days.<\/p>

The Walgreens next to my elementary school? Molotov cocktail thrown into it.<\/p>

The Lake Harriet Bandshell, where we spent countless Mother\u2019s Days? Homeless encampment popped up next door.<\/p>

These are the things you don\u2019t read about in the news.<\/p>

Ten minutes from my house, at 38th and Chicago, there is still an\u00a0autonomous zone<\/a>. Police are not allowed to enter. Residents have died because medical authorities couldn\u2019t get through, and carjackers (of which there are MANY) will speed into the zone to escape officer pursuit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Part of me says “chalk it up to perspective”. The writer – Gustavus student Grace Bureau – likely wasn’t born during MInnepolis’s last round of toxicity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is <\/em>different this time around. In the nineties, you not only got the impression from Norm Coleman, and even Sharon Sayles Belton, that this was not “the new normal”<\/em> – that a tsunami of violent, gang crime was not the way it was supposed to be, something “good people” were supposed to suck it up and tolerate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s entirely changed – as Bureau notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…I can\u2019t help but look around and wonder, \u201cWhat happened here? Where exactly did it all go wrong?\u201d<\/p>

Was it the liberal mob? Identity politics? The cries of \u201cRACIST!\u201d when someone disagreed with a particular reaction or policy?<\/p>

Was it conservative silence as the loudest voices got more and more radical?<\/p>

Was it our acceptance that \u201cwe live in a blue area, this is just the way things are?\u201d<\/p>

How did it all happen so fast?<\/p>

Whatever it was, I\u2019m leaving this dark, surreal, twisted version of Minneapolis on Friday. And I pray to God that I never have to come back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If the story had a comment section – College Fix <\/em>is smarter than that – it would no doubt te prog-clogged with chuckleheaded laughing boys saying “good riddance”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suspect Bureau, and the many like her, are saying the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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