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a group of young black entrepreneurs have owned a office building in uptown minneapolis for over a year& got racially profiled at the private gym today🤦🏾♀️smh
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)sop
(10,155 posts)Blecht
(3,803 posts)Total fucking asshole.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)God, he was so incredibly "hateable". Not sure if that is even a word, but it was the first thing that came to mind.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)If so, dumb ass racist is gonna have a rough time explaining it away.
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)catbyte
(34,371 posts)Wednesday, November 1, 2017 by Mike Mullen in News
Tom Austin is not a historian, a sociologist, or a political scientist.
Readers of this morning's Star Tribune opinion section will recognize as much, probably well before they reach the tagline of Austin's guest column, which labels him as the "CEO and managing partner of the F2 Group, a venture capital and private equity firm in Minneapolis."
And yet, somehow, Austin feels qualified to try his hand at both historical analysis and public opinion research. The results are very bad.
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Tom Austin continues:
Let's stop Tom here again, briefly, to just acknowledge how fucking awful that paragraph was.
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http://www.citypages.com/news/venture-capitalist-and-his-lake-calhoun-neighbors-unimpressed-by-native-americans/454492023
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)from a lake in Minneapolis and giving it the Lakota/Dakota name Bde Maka Ska.
catbyte
(34,371 posts)sop
(10,155 posts)His op-ed smacks of that particular brand of white priviledge and genteel racism so common in the corporate world today.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I'm glad that people are seeing racism is not a problem limited to the south.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)South, white folks dont care how close I get as long as I dont get too big. Up North, white folks dont care how big I get, as long as I dont get too close.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)In my experience, I've lived with, worked with, played with, slept with, been (and am) neighbors with black folks all my life.
I saw much more racism in the times I've spent up north than I ever have here.