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The fourth anniversary of George Floyd’s drug overdose death wrongly mischaracterized as a killing by leftist activists who used his overdose to trigger nationwide race riots and seize power has been met with a Biden statement pushing another pro-crime bill, a documentary about how Floyd “changed the world” and more racism.
What it has not been met with is justice for the victims of the largest race riots in decades.
Minneapolis, including the infamous George Floyd Square, is still a hellhole.
George Floyd Square, a memorial to the deceased, still stands. While some buildings have been replaced or restored, others have been razed, leaving a series of vacant lots.
During the riots, civic authorities ordered the Minneapolis Police Department to abandon its Third Precinct station house to the protesters, who looted it and burned it down.
Today the burned-out husk of the station still stands, surrounded by a fence on which a sign vaguely proclaims that cleanup of the site will begin in 2024. It hasn’t started yet.
Lake Street is now lined by a succession of tents — a series of homeless encampments.
Just last week, the encampments saw two shootings, one fatal.
Four years ago, there were no such homeless zones on Lake Street or elsewhere in Minneapolis.
Since 2020, one business after another has quietly abandoned the western end of Lake Street.
Uptown, as an entertainment destination, has more or less ceased to exist.
Local residents are still pleading for some kind of reconstruction after the mostly peaceful, but mostly violent race riots.
Granted, the question begs who should be responsible for what tourists see when they arrive. I believe that an impoverished community with limited resources can only do so much. Thus the onus falls on the city of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, and even the governor’s office to turn this site into a visual and economic beacon of social justice.
Why is it taking so long to come up with a design that will infuse vitality and economic life into this small area that has become a top tourist attraction? It’s starting to look like the city is not committed to the cause of social justice after all. If Floyd had been murdered in downtown Minneapolis I‘d wager it would be one of the most attractive monument sites in the country, infusing every business in the area.
What better memorial could there be for social justice than a wasteland and a hellhole? That is what social justice accomplishes in the end. Everyone should visit and learn a lesson from George Floyd Square.
The MPD police chief lied. Justice died.
See “The Fall of Minneapolis.”
Please pray for Derek Chauvin’s safety and release from his unjust imprisonment!
That’s an interesting topic, once thriving areas that go to wrack and ruin, and never recover. I got interested in that as a kid, when my Mom took me on a visit to her friend, and wandering around out back I found acres of rusting and ruined farm equipment that had once been a productive area. Reading history, after the Mongol invasions, a lot of prosperous areas that were overrun never came back. Etc. Nomads were particularly bad since they preferred deserts anyway, where their flocks could roam, and they could easily launch raids on civilized areas from the desert. That was a big factor in why Islam was so successful in spreading in North Africa, also in overrunning the Byzantine Empire.
Islam was good at overrunning North Africa, because it was desert?
The nomads of Eurasia I think prefer grasslands not desert.
In the Afghanistan area or somewhat further north there was a considered policy of depopulating or at least decimating the area as a buffer area or to make lebensraum for the Mongols.
Decimation or the Mongol invasion destroyed the qanat irrigation system because the people who tended it were killed or driven off and it fell into disrepair,
The Mongols did have the intent to depopulate some areas at certain times by some degree,. Did they intend the 3nd or 4rd order effects such as neglected irrigation systems causing further depopulation?
Thankfully, it was the Russians who threw off the Mongols and finally put Islam/Ottomans
in their place. and overran much of the Islamic/Ottoman territory in Asia and Europe.
If England and France had stayed out of the Crimean War, Russia may have completely crushed
depraved psychopathic murderous berserk Islam by the late 1800s
I got the idea about the deserts from Bernard Lewis, so I think I’m in good company 🙂
Though I had long had similar ideas.
It takes some strategic analysis to do the idea justice.
For example, desert areas surrounding prosperous agricultural areas. The nomads can just roam around the desert until a good chance to raid the agricultural areas comes along. While there is nothing in the desert for the agriculturists worth raiding.
Then there is the issue of what is considered a desert. Etc.
Great video, the Guardian meets the fruits of its labors 🙂
Finally having some extra time after a busy semester recently ended, I started reading Daniel Greenfield’s recently published book “Domestic Enemies.” Unsurprisingly, given the quality of his essays, it is excellent. I suspect many more students would take history courses if they were assigned such engrossing books.
My advice to the citizens and others of Minneapolis:: Continue to shelter in place with or without a mask, continue to vote often as you have, take the free safe Fentanyl use class, please defund the police 100% and finally continue to fight climate change by not reproducing.
Rebuilding there would be like rebuilding in a flood plain. The only difference is that people don’t vote for floods, whereas in Minneapolis they do vote for riots, burning and looting.
Ghetto people like it better when there’s no law and order and everything is broke.
They don’t have the mental capacity to understand the civilized life.
Take the “social” out of justice. Problem solved.
Lightning destroyed the Floyd Memorial Lightning from the Sky
I grew up in the Twin Cities (St. Paul)I have many friends and relatives there. The Floyd unpleasantness was an accelerant, but both Minneapolis and St. Paul were already in decline; led by social justice warriors , hacks, and carpetbaggers like Mill City mayor Jacob Frey, and Hacks like St. Paul mayor Melvin Carter.
It’s sad- the Twin Cities were a great place to grow up, clean, safe, and economically vibrant (vibrant in the old fashioned sense, that is) Now it’s in the express lane to becoming Detroit.
“Fundamental transformation”, just your typical Democrat legacy run city, or both? Can’t have a pesky middle class getting in the way of the dreams of the idle rich engineering their transition to serfdom. Morlocks and Eloi, nothing else will do.
The lesson to be learned here is if you lack the resources to rebuild, maybe it’s a bad idea to destroy your own neighborhood with violent rioting and arson. So, no, nobody else is going to want to rebuild it for you. The next time a career criminal dies of an overdose in your neighborhood, just step over him and forget about it. They’ll be less damage done.