Video: Minnesota senator says Minneapolis schools destroyed by integration

The DFL has released a video of this week’s statement by Burnsville Republican Sen. Dan Hall on school integration. “I watched Minneapolis get destroyed, so I not only didn’t want my kids in the school system,” he said. “I took them out of Minneapolis because they ruined our neighborhoods More…

Minnesota Senate Republican: integration ‘destroyed’ Minneapolis

A move by Minnesota Republicans to repeal school integration laws resulted in heated debate about the decades-long program that aims to diversify schools in the Twin Cities metro area and Duluth. During a floor debate on elimination of desegregation programs Thursday, Sen. Dan Hall, R-Burnsville, said, “I watched Minneapolis get More…

But Why Won’t African-Americans Vote Republican?

My friend J.P. Freire digs up a 2003 speech by Katon Dawson, the Republican National Committee chairman candidate who has apologized for once belonging to a whites-only country club, in which Dawson traces his Republicanism back to…

…wait for it…

… racial integration.

I, in the 1960s was

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