Watched American Experience: Fatal Flood this evening. I didn’t know the history of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the terrible racist actions around it. Just 93 years ago…
Family bike ride with Dairy Queen in the middle! 🍦🚴🏼♂️🚴♀️🚴🏼♂️🚴♀️
Last night we enjoyed Dennis Watkin’s Magic Parlour at Home show. We’ve seen his amazing magic in Chicago, and this live experience over Zoom was awesome! It is super engaging, and a great example of online entertainment! Highly recommended! 🎩
Delicious pork butts on the Big Green Egg! 🤤🔥🐖
I got my Peloton Century Club shirt yesterday! Like it!
Very impressed with Decadent Saint Ultimate Mixer! Just add water and it’s a delicious refreshing drink for a summer afternoon!
We capped off #TeamSPS TechJam 2020 with a keynote from Casey Rosenthal on resilient systems and the practices that enable and support that transition. He filled it with fabulous stories relating the core resiliency topics to historical problems. 🙌
Jim Crow of the North
Tammy and I watched Minnesota Experience: Jim Crow of the North tonight. It was incredibly eye opening to one form of systemic racism that I have been surrounded by for over two decades and was not aware of.
Racist real estate covenants were pervasive in Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs. In fact, the last house that we lived in on Morgan Avenue includes one.
no person or persons other than of the white race shall be permitted to occupy said premises or any part thereof
You can see the relatively small enclave of these racist covenants right off of Minnehaha Creek. Then a huge grid of them further south.
I was curious about our current home on the East side of Pamela Park in Edina. Somewhat surprisingly, none of the properties on the East have covenants, but the Western side of Pamela Park is littered with them.
If you are curious you can spend some time exploring yourself at Mapping Prejudice. Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, one of the co-founders of the project, also did a TEDx Minneapolis talk on these racist covenants.
I’m left with the data that 75% of White families in Minneapolis own their own homes, and only 25% of Black families own their home. The generations of wealth built and restricted from so many families has massive impact still today.
Love the enthusiasm and passion that Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is sharing with #TeamSPS during TechJam! “Spearheading the Future of Programming” His love for the craft of programming is overflowing! 👩💻👨💻
