Like every part of America, Powderhorn, Minneapolis, has always struggled with racism. Growing up there, SafyHallanFarah learned that early on.
On May 26, I woke up to the news that an African American man named George Floyd, 46 years old, was killed 12 blocks from my home—in front of Cup Foods, an Arab-American mom-and-pop corner store my family and I would infrequently patronize, one of the only ones still standing in our expeditiously gentrifying neighborhood.
I was the one who suggested, one day, that we peek inside an unmarked cardboard box two doors over, in front of the shady rental building. I was known to do that, stick my nose in things. Blithely unconcerned with how I looked to myself, much less how I looked to other people, I didn’t quite know where my nose belonged yet. Back then, I wore dookie braids, oversized T-shirts, and basketball shorts like it was a lieutenant’s uniform.
in particular. I still can’t, after all these years, say with certainty that all white people in Minneapolis are one way, but at the same time, the act of qualifying general statements about white people is a fool’s errand, and I like to save my futile optimism for more important things, like the possibility of Rilo Kiley getting back together. I suppose if I had to accurately quantify how many white people I am specifically referring to, “almost all white people” would be more apt.
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