Minneapolis Musicians on the Uprising for George Floyd
This is the same cycle of violence that we have seen before. The last few days have been full of emotional anguish, triggers, and mobilization efforts. The community is grieving. George Floyd’s family is still mourning. Minneapolis is still mourning. Black youth and other petrified civilians had to watch Floyd in his last moments in real-time. The Minneapolis community had to watch the video circulating on autoplay as the video garnered national attention.
Minnesotans are distraught because of media coverage that is tarnishing George Floyd’s reputation and character. He was deeply beloved by the community, and it’s jarring to read all of this speculation about him when it’s untrue. I am in tears now as I get flashbacks of the video. The next night, me and my fiancé went out to try to provide some aid. We found a medic station that had been abandoned once the fires had started, so a few of us took over the medic station and provided eye washings and basic first aid with whatever we had available. Last night, we came back with a more established presence. It’s definitely scary. A lot of us don’t have any training and have never seen anything like this. The city is really burning around us. I think a lot of people in St.
These communities that are currently burning, they weren’t Norman Rockwell paintings before. They were brutally policed and underfunded, and there was rampant homelessness and inequality. They’ve been hurting for a long time. When people see communities being destroyed on the news, they imaginecommunities being destroyed, and if they live in a nice one, they can’t imagine why someone would want to burn down their lovely community. But that’s not the situation we are finding ourselves in.
And then people want to wonder why black people are rioting? One irrational response begets another irrational response. It’s a ridiculous notion to blow up your own neighborhood to protest police brutality, it doesn’t make sense, but that’s the part of your mind that gets stimulated in the face of things that don’t make sense.
Here, because Minnesotans are more mild, it’s hard to see. It’s not like down South, which has a reputation for being racist. A lot of people don’t know that Minnesota is the secondin the union. They don’t know about the history of redlining in certain communities. I grew up in Southeast Minneapolis, adjacent to Tower Hill, Prospect Park. That was one of the first places where there was a real standoff between the black family that moved here and the neighbors, who didn’t really know what to do.
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