Comments on: Thursday, July 16, 1931: Race row in Minneapolis

By: Joyce Brown

Joyce Brown — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:43:04 +0000

Minnesota Nice has been in existence for quite some time.

By: Ellen Nizzi

Ellen Nizzi — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:30:16 +0000

My cousin, Margaret, mailed a copy of the Feb. 4, 2009 article concerning the 1931 racial incident at 4600 Columbus Ave. I was ten years old and resided at 4628 Columbus at that time. I have never forgotten that summer. One outstanding memory was the day I walked down the alley behind the house and saw racial slurs painted black on the house. All was new to me. My playmates kept saying, “wait until she goes to school, then we’ll get her.” If my memory is accurate, I think she went to a private school. I remember how the police stopped our alley entrance to our garage. My dad had to prove that we resided at this address. Because of the Great Depression, we were forced to move in the Fall of 1931 to another location in Minneapolis. I was a resident of Amarillo, Texas for 70 years and have been living the good life in Florida for the past four years.

By: STEVEN LEE

STEVEN LEE — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:17:24 +0000

ARTHUR LEE WAS MY FATHER {WILVER LEE} UNCLE. WHEN MY SISTER SAW THIS STORY SHE TOLD ME ABOUT IT AND THAT SHE HAD ASKED MY DAD ABOUT IT . HE REMEBERED IT WELL BECAUSE HE WAS THERE. HE TOLD MY SISTER WHAT IT WAS LIKE AND ALSO THE PROBLEMS HE HAD WHEN HE AND HIS BROTHER WERE BUYING THIER HOMES. IF YOU THINK THIS IS ANOTHER DUMB BLACK MAN .HE IS NOT. IN FACT HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW BLACK POLICEMAN THAT THIS CITY HAD. HE IS NOW 96 BUT HE RISED US KIDS TO BELIEVE WE COULD BE OR DO ANYTHING WE SET OUR MINDS TO. AND HE NEVER HAD A BAD WORD TO SAY ABOUT MPLS OR IT’S PEOPLE WHEN WE WERE GROWING UP. HE ALWAYS SAID TO LET A PERSON SHOW YOU WHAT THEY ARE LIKE, AND TO NEVER PREJUDGE ANYONE BY THEIR COLOR OR THEIR RACE. AND BY THE WAY I NEW MY UNCLE AS UNCLE ART AND THEY NEVER SAID A BAD THING ABOUT THIS CITY OR IT’S PEOPLE
STEVEN LEE

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:06:20 +0000

By the way. The incident at Valley Fair was between 2 black parties. There was no violence against a white person in that incident.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:38:21 +0000

WOW! Valley Fair to the right to bear arms! Evolve people! I mean to hear a heart warming story about a courageous family and make comparison to an incident at Valley Fair? How ignorant are you??

By: Coketomo

Coketomo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:34:33 +0000

Please,
> Listen to yourselves. The story about the house was simply published today
because of the date and history. The Valley Fair incident was caused by
miscreants who no doubt are making many sensible black families cringe. They
are not part of the misdoings yet feel guilt by association of race. The
comments here are fostering that sentiment. What has been said here today is
racial crimes as dastardly as the stoning of the house and the Valley Fair
beating and if you want the violence to end quitadding your own hatred to
the mix. Shame on everyone who even made a hateful racial remark.

By: Right to bear arms

Right to bear arms — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:27:00 +0000

I just read the story, linked from another website. I live in Texas and we are allowed to use self-defense here to protect ourselves or someone else who is in trouble. I don’t know what kind of backwards-assed laws Minnesota must have that NObody in the crowd felt that they could use a taser or gun to save that man’s life. He could have EASILY been killed. It’s fortunate for the perpetrators that he wasn’t.

Please don’t throw the race crap into this story, it has nothing to do with a citizen’s right to defend himself or defend someone else being brutalized.
If that had been 8 hispanic, white or some other race of guys, any armed human being watching that take place should have DONE SOMETHING.

If you think it’s all about race, look at what happened to Dimebag Darrell, former guitarist of Pantera. Thank God there was an armed man at that concert who was finally able to shoot the lunatic who killed Dimebag Darrell or else there would have been more deaths.
That wasn’t about race, that was about defending yourself and fellow citizens!!

By: doris

doris — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:26:14 +0000

It’s time to stop balmming violent on color it’s the same as dealth it has no color. And I agree this started over four hundreds ago and these kids are retaliting which is wrong. bsck in the day A black man could’nt walk to the store for bread for his family without his family freaing that he might not make it back home due to the KKK killing him **HAVE A GOOD DAY** SMILES

By: Severus Patribus

Severus Patribus — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:45:38 +0000

Fathers of Minneapolis - between the Valley Fair incident and the incident last week where the 15-year-old was abducted by her 19-year-old [ex-boyfriend] (after he [allegedly] beat the girl’s father with a brick) - let’s send a strong, strong message - I’ll go first - violence toward my children will be responded to in kind and with extreme prejudice; and I finish the things I start. These little savages need to be put in their place, and we have an obligation to our kids to keep them safe - black AND white.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:25:13 +0000

More is learned by reading and listening. The story was published because of the date JULY 16. Read the title.