On Racism, Riots, and Redemption
Overturned carts, empty cop cars, smoldering buildings coated in soot, and men and women in camouflage armed to the hilt as they march through throngs of people. These are the images I have seen coming out of Minneapolis - a place as much a part of me as the rest of my beautiful state - these last couple weeks. To look at these photos, you would not guess this to be a city in the midwest United States, but some far-off land, perhaps in the Middle East, which we have been taught to believe is rife with violence and war. But this time, the war is not on the other side of the world... It is here, in my own backyard. And I have said very little... But no longer.
