To: Jon Collins, Senior Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, MInnesota Public Radio
From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant
Re: Anniversary + Findings<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Collins, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I have every year since 2021, I hope this day finds you well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was four years ago yesterday you sent this out on your listener mailing list::<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n“South Minneapolis: I know this sounds crazy. But it’s 2020. And I’m working on story now about white supremacists coming to Minneapolis to foment race war under cover of the protests. I need your help, and your friends help. Please refer anyone with real, credible info (not rumor or speculation) or sources to me at (I’m gonna redact that) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the heck – let’s give this a shot:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Now, I know MPR reporters don’t generally deign to respond to the peasantry – in fact, I know MPR News management specifically tells staff not to engage with the unwashed masses. <\/span><\/p>\n
But for the fourth June in a row, I’m genuinely curious – did you find anything?<\/span><\/p>\n
It’s not of idle interest to me.\u00a0 Mine was one of the neighborhoods that got burned, looted and vandalized in May of 2020 (noting at the time that\u00a0I saw a lot of “AmeriKKKa” and “Destroy the 1%” graffiti, but not a single swastika or “14 words” reference, I’m thinking the Twin Cities either got the most inept “white supremacists” in the history of bigotry, or they were the most ingenious – fiendishly tricking a whole city full of leftists into doing the job\u00a0for\u00a0<\/em>them – the sort of fieldcraft that’d make a Mossad agent envious).\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
While I am a very overt conservative (I went from Bob Collins’ Christmas Card list to…well, very much off of it during his unfortunate unpleasantness a few years ago), I also spent time covering radical groups of all stripes back when I was\u00a0<\/em>in the mainstream media.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n