Alright – so, Minnesota now has the most minority legislatures. Yay! I soooooo hope this means our communities will be fairly represented and inequalities eliminated. Reps Hodan, Moran, Richardson, Noor and Senators Hayden and Champion formed this caucus. They talked about writing specific bills in education to close the disparity gap and don’t forget the suspension disparities as well. They also stated judicial reform is needed… you think? We need more judges of color to be appointed by Walz AND we need our attorneys including Champion to run for county and district attorneys as well as judges. Richardson talked about maternal health disparity. Well…. well….well….can we please fire previous deputy commissioner Pollack and current MDH commissioner Jan if we really want to get rid of maternal health disparity which is baaaad for women of color in Minnesota. Actually, Minnesota is doing worse in this area than some third world countries. Who is surprised by this? please stand up and come out of living under a rock.
I have said a million times, disparity comes from discrimination. The faster we admit this – the faster we can address it. Just take a look at the people in charge of Minnesota Department of Human Services. No Black person.. what a shock there! And the Minnesota Department of Health…who the heck looks like me there…. drum roll please….. nada. Just to tell you how bad Minnesota is in White privilege – remember when MDH or the state health department didn’t care about the elderly getting abused and neglected. Well, guess who was in charge of that? Dan Pollock. Did he get fired? Oh god no. never. He got promoted to be deputy commissioner of the human services department. This is what creates disparity. Giving opportunities to yuky people like Pollock. I am sorry but if one more white person tells me they understand inequity and disparity, I am going to scream. One of my favorite people on this earth is Professor Michael Eric Dyson who is simply amazing. Here is what he said about white privilege which is soooo true.
Equity has become a hip word for elected officials to use. Oh, they also said something about Walz being a former teacher. Ah, excuse me but aren’t a white male and white female teachers the ones who suspend students of color disproportionately. Walz is also from Mankato school district which has a horrible suspension rate for students of color. Can we party like it is 1999 now? like really? Governor Walz helping the Black community in Minnesota is an oxymoron.
Seriously, will the real slim shady please stand up…is all I can really say here.
blah blah, blah was the rest of this speech. They needed to come and hit it out of the park with specific agendas and actual specific bills that had assigned numbers. You can watch or read that announcement here.
As always, above words are my own and do not represent any candidate, agency or committee.
Idil – Somali Autism Mom