Table of Contents The
Minneapolis Story
Seventeen Chapters On Minneapolis: Past and Present
History, Background, Court System, Politics, Education, Housing,
Construction, Vikings, Local Black Organizations,
Redistricting, War On Drugs As War On Young Black Men, Alternative
Futures: Status Quo Vs. Change For The Better
Sixteen Short Historical Interludes Between The Chapters
Conclusion On Future Possibilities For Minneapolis
Acknowledgements
Preface: Storytelling as Connecting the Dots:
African Style and Ron Edwards Style p. 1
Chapter 1: Introduction: To Be A Beacon On The Hill p.
15
Interlude 1: Ron Edwards: One of the most Media covered Citizen
Advocates p. 45
Chapter 2: My Path to Minnesota p. p.
47
Interlude 2: Racism In Minneapolis I:
Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1990 p. 57
Chapter 3: The Minneapolis Courts:
Whose Rule of Law? The People’s Or the Judges’? How "legal"
can trump "moral"? p. 59
Postscript, October 2002: PBS, 10-1-02:
"The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" p. 71
Interlude 3: Nellie Stone Johnson: Community Advocate, Civil
Rights Activist p. 73
Chapter 4: My Philosophical Paradox: From "Anywhere But
Here"
to "Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere" p. 79
Interlude 4: The Greatest Trio:
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson. The
Greatest Quartet: George Washington Carver, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and Justice Thurgood Marshall p.
85
Chapter 5: Justice and Fairness: The question of equal equal
access and opportunity p. 93
Postscript: October 2002: Who Won The Civil War? p.
103
Interlude 5: The Good News On Race, Part I:
from the 2000 Census: General Advances p. 105
Chapter 6: What makes Minneapolis Minneapolis?
Identifying Characteristics of the Bosses of Minnesota, OR: Life
on the Mississippi’s Grandest Liberal Plantation 109
Interlude 6: Dred Scott Started at Fort Schnelling:
The Kind of "Being First" We Don’t Want p.
117
Chapter 7: The Corrupt and Racist Education System: Poor Schools
for Poor Kids to Keep Them Poor: Clubbing the Cubs Into Inferiority
and Helplessness: Stop the clubbing and teach skills, optimism, and
hope.
p. 119
Interlude 7: The Good News on Race, Part II:
From the 2000 Census: The Relationship Between Education, Jobs,
Housing, Income, and Poverty and Income and Prosperity: p.
127
Chapter 8: The Corrupt and Racist Housing System:
The Hollman Project: A Project To Exclude Blacks. Gentrification
as a Return to Plantation Bosses. Razing Blacks Homes And Then
Raising White Homes In Their Place p. 129
Interlude 8:
"Torn from the Land:" A Newspaper Series on
How the Land and Wealth of Blacks Has Been "legally" stolen
since Reconstruction. Making the Case for Reparations For Stolen
Land and Wealth, Not for Slavery: The Rediscovery of Black Capability
and Black Capitalism p. 141
Chapter 9: The Corrupt and Racist Construction Contract System
Resulting in Jail not Jobs, with both of them as part of The War
on Drugs as a War on Black Men: Blacks as Inmates not as Contractors
or Workers p. 147
Postscript of October 3, 2002: Black men need not apply p.
156
Interlude 9: Jobs and the Search for Dignity and Respect:
The HBO movie on the Pullman Porters: 10,000 Men Named George p.
157
Chapter 10: The University of Minnesota:
Burying the Truth Losing Its Soul: The Case of Luther Darville:
Scapegoat
p. 159
Postscript from An October 2002 USA Today: Blacks left out
of coaching p. 171
Interlude 10: Racism In Minneapolis II:
Mpls.St. Paul Magazine, 1990, 2001 p. 173
Chapter 11: The Corruption and Racism of Boss City Government:
The DFL Dumps a Black Mayor Who Favors Democracy? 175 Interlude
11: Adam Clayton Powell: Keep the, Faith Baby (Showtime movie),
What A Black Leader Can Do Who Doesn’t See Himself As a Victim p.
181
Chapter 12:Gerrymandering Ward Redistricting
Another Example of The Corruption and Racism of Boss City Government:
p. 183
Interlude 12: Gerrymandering p. 199
Chapter 13: Redistricting:
Themes, Conclusions, and Recommended Remedies for The Corruption
and Racism of Boss City Government p. 201
Interlude 13: The Tulsa Race Riots as told by my Grandfather p.
205
The Economic Meaning of Stories Like Tulsa: Blacks Can Be Prosperous
p. 207
Chapter 14: The Role of Minneapolis Black Organizations
In The Minneapolis story: Civil Rights Commission, Urban League,
NAACP, Churches/Synagogues/Mosques. Being Part of the Problem Rather
than the Solution, as they move toward White-Like Black Elite Rule
for Spoils and Not Principles, and Sell Out Black Community Interests,
Education, Housing and Jobs, Dignity and Recognition p.
209
Interlude 14: Slave stories and slave ancestry: Lest we Forget:
p. 251
Chapter 15: The Story of Punting the Minnesota Vikings out of Town
Decision by the Few for the Many. Say Good-bye to the Vikings;
They Are Leaving. Say Goodbye to the Vikings; They are our Loss.
That is the Plan. p. 253
Interlude 15: Lynching: Duluth; Assassination: Martin Luther
King, Jr. p. 265
Postscript after October 3, 2000 Council Meetng
on (1) hiring compliance; (2) CRB, and (3) potential future quarantining
p. 267
Chapter 16: The Negative Status Quo Future:
Same ol’ same ol’ of August-September 2002, as Preview?
How August 2002 Proves the Points of the Minneapolis story; Will
The Beacon Continue to Shine Brilliantly and Lead the Way, or Will
the Beacon’s Switch Be Turned Off, Leaving No Path to Create
or Follow? Can we Get Away from the "need" to Checkmate
Each Other? Can We Learn to Just Get Along?. p. 269
Interlude 16:
Calculating A Better Future For all by Calculating Actions and
Laws for Their Attendant Pain and Meaning, to a Better Vision For
A Better World of Integrating All People into the Mainstream Of
Equal Access and Equal Opportunity For All p. 297
Chapter 17: The Positive Future Possibilities for Minneapolis:
Envisioning the Dream, Sustaining the Vision, Not Asking Permission,
Making no Apologies for Being Free p. 301
October postscript on the future: what legacy do we leave for
our grandchildren? p. 314
Conclusion: Not losing sight of the Prize of Equality’s Freedom p.
315
To engage Ron Edwards as a speaker p. 326
To order copies of The Minneapolis Story Through My Eyes p.
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