From:

The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Thursday, October 31-November 6, 2002, p. 1.

Followers of the Minneapolis political scene are in for a rare treat as local community activist Ron Edwards’ new book The Minneapolis Story, Through My Eyes hits the bookstores.

Edwards pulls out all the stops to show just how the city’s white power elite operates to keep poor folks and people of color in their subordinate place and maintain the status quo. According to him their tactics include inadequate education, insufficient affordable housing, restricted job opportunities, gerrymandering, and a war against young Black men.

Edwards names names and calls the shots exactly as he sees them, but his aim is a positive one: to unite a city he loves around the goals of equal access and opportunity for all. He outlines a plan of constructive actions that can heal the wounds of the past and consign the city’s systematic racism to history’s dustbin.