Floyd and the aftermath (Minneapolis: mortgage, homes, unemployment rate)

[Cida]

Jelani Cobb wrote a long piece about Minneapolis, Floyd, and everything that's happened.

I know, it's not news. But interesting.



Letter From Minneapolis
Derek Chauvin’s Trial and George Floyd’s City
Although many Americans see the former police officer’s conviction as just closure, many in Minneapolis view it as the beginning of a larger battle.
Last year, Samuel Myers, Jr., a professor at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, published a post on the school’s Web site about what he called the Minnesota Paradox. The state, which typically ranks among the best places to live in the country, has a strong economy (3M, U.S. Bancorp, General Mills, and Cargill are all headquartered there), respected institutions of higher education, affordable homes, abundant natural resources, and a landscape (eleven thousand lakes) that feeds a thriving outdoor-recreation industry. The Twin Cities, in particular, seem to have been granted an exemption from the postindustrial malaise that has defined other Midwestern cities.
But, Myers wrote, “measured by racial gaps in unemployment rates, wage and salary incomes, incarceration rates, arrest rates, home ownership rates, mortgage lending rates, test scores, reported child maltreatment rates, school disciplinary and suspension rates, and even drowning rates, African-Americans are worse off in Minnesota than they are in virtually every other state in the nation.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...ge-floyds-city

[Teak]

Interesting. Why did he leave out fatherless home rates in his analysis?

Given the extremely generous welfare that Minnesota has had on offer for decades, a study that leaves out the causes within the African-American community that has failed them is likely a biased study. Prince certainly did well for himself. Same with the Jones brothers and Jason Suggs. My company's former secretary has a daughter that married a man from the A-A community, and he is a success story.

Here's a telling sentence: Floyd’s death was one of some eighty homicides in Minneapolis last year; the majority of the victims were Black and male. But the study's author didn't go on to say that the majority of the people killing those victims were also black and male. Why is that? Why leave out an extremely important statistic?

I don't trust research that leaves out inconvenient truths.

[PullMyFinger]

My theory is that most of them are relatively recent arrivals, especially the criminal element that is casting a shadow on black people in Minnesota. I’ve noticed the shocking difference when I travel south where they come from established families who have lived in their area for 100+ years.

I hope I’m not sounding racist because I don’t mean to be, I’m just trying to be honest.