‘Commentary’ Archives
Counterpoint Commentary: “Fitness for CEPRO”*
By Rand Retterath The CEPRO property is the site of the former grain elevators along the Greenway between 10th and 11th Ave and 28th and 29th St. A lot of discussion went into that property . It”'s disposition affected the Midtown Block Club in a major way. The block club lost neighbors who had spent a lifetime in their home, others who had been in their homes over 50 years, a husband and wife who did major work with First Nation”'s both in town and among area reservations, the block club lost a much needed for-profit business that supported the community and it lost a charter school. The members of Midtown Block Club were and to some extent still are a close knit community, formed and coalesced by a couple of formidable women who gathered to protest against prostitution, crimes against women and quality of life issues. As a block club, they recognized that no one wanted responsibility for the CEPRO site.  No one had the resources. The Greenway [...]
Frank Reflections: Transference of guilt: right or wrong?
By Frank Erickson Abdisalam Adam is a public school teacher and iman from St. Paul and a model for how the White House and U.S. law enforcement hope to avoid an American version of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.”””Washington Post It is amazing that they don”'t see the racism in their approach””that they connect the Paris killings to the Twin Cities, not from evidence that someone was planning such an attack, but from Minnesota having the largest U.S. population of Somali-Americans. That or Somali Community could produce such an attack based on religion and skin color and not on evidence that anyone is planning to use violence. In a chilling headline, “The time has come for Minnesota Somalis” ”“ he Star Tribune puts the entire Somali Community on trial, on the hot seat. They must see this as acceptable since local analyst Jamal Abdulahi wrote the editorial. (more…)
