{"id":78225,"date":"2021-06-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78225"},"modified":"2021-06-06T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T21:06:54","slug":"purity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78225","title":{"rendered":"Purity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minneapolis City Council is going full blown Maoist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The council sent an \u201copen letter\u201c to city employees in May, \u201cencouraging\u201c them to sign a declaration that there was pretty much nothing to any white culture but racism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In a May 28 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lf04DPo7bys\" target=\"_blank\">meeting<\/a>, Bender referred to an open letter which all city employees are invited to sign \u2014 anyone who signs the letter is acknowledging racism as a public health crisis, accepting responsibility for the \u201cpain\u201d they have caused as \u201cstewards of the City of Minneapolis\u2019s policies,\u201d and recognizing that Minneapolis has been and continues to be harmful to the BIPOC community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The letter was filed into the official city record and will be published on June 11 with the signatures of all who choose to sign, making it easy to know which employees decide not to sign the letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Bender said this statement should not have to be \u201ccourageous.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThis should be baked into our systems, and what we all commit to unwaveringly every day,\u201d Bender declared. \u201cOur staff of color, particularly in Minneapolis, have been carrying the burden of white supremacy throughout our systems every day, for a very long time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Riots decimate entire neighborhoods.<\/p><p>Gangs turn commercial streets into free fire zones.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Hot rodders make the streets unlivable after dark on weekends, at best, and at worst blaze away at each other, harming only bystanders (as usual)<\/p><p><\/p><p>And this is what the city Council busies itself with.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis City Council is going full blown Maoist. The council sent an \u201copen letter\u201c to city employees in May, \u201cencouraging\u201c them to sign a declaration that there was pretty much nothing to any white culture but racism: In a May 28 meeting, Bender referred to an open letter which all city employees are invited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78225","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=78225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78237,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78225\/revisions\/78237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}