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From YouTube: Minneapolis 2040: Imagining Equity - Our Past
Description
Crankie depicting "Our Past" from the Imagining Equity engagement tool for Minneapolis 2040.
Artists: Mike Hoyt and Molly Van Avery
A
In
Minneapolis
as
a
local
government,
we
wrestled
with
how
to
best
engage
residents,
specifically
people
of
color
and
indigenous
communities,
who
have
historically
been
left
out
of
the
Civic
process
as
a
part
of
designing
the
Civic
process
for
Minneapolis
2040.
This
led
to
a
few
questions
one.
How
could
we
cultivate
spaces
and
opportunities
for
authentic
feedback
in
dialogue
and
then
two?
What
could
we
do
to
build
trust,
transparency
and
educate
the
public
on
the
importance
of
the
Minneapolis
2040
comprehensive
plan
in.
B
2016
local
artists,
Molly
van
Avery
and
Mike
Hoyts
were
brought
on
board
to
help
design
creative
engagement
methods.
Their
product
was
called
imagining
equity
illustrious
girls
known
as
Cranky's,
to
invite
participants
to
think
process
and
reflect
on
the
history
of
Minneapolis
and
how
that
history
has
shaped
today's
racial
disparities.
Together
we
were
able
to
use
art
as
a
tool
to
acknowledge
Minneapolis,
--is,
complex
paths,
opening
the
door
for
honest
and
real
conversations
about
the
present
and
future
of
Minneapolis.
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D
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C
D
Starving
waiting
for
inadequate
money
and
goods
promised,
but
never
delivered,
little
crow
is
caught
in
the
complexity.
Uprising,
a
six-week,
us-dakota
war
of
1862,
a
military
commission
sentences,
303
men
to
die,
President
Lincoln,
pardons
all
but
38th
their
lives
are
taken
and
the
largest
mass
hanging
of
US
history
acts.
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Of
an
ideal
Minneapolis
is
sold
as
a
few
mixed-race.
Neighborhoods
are
labeled
slums
and
destroyed.
This
marks
the
beginning
of
a
three
decade-long
urban
renewal
campaign
that
entrenches
segregation
along
race
and
class
lines,
misinformed
and
anxious
white
homeowners
blame
lowering
real-estate
prices
on
the
influx
of
African
American
families
moving
north
and
form
hateful
mobs.
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E
At
the
YMCA
downtown
for
four
days,
I
walked
around
the
downs
area,
I
felt
so
out
of
place
because
I
didn't
see
another
black
person
those
whole
four
days,
I
found
a
police
officer
and
asks
where
in
the
heck,
do
black
people
live
around
here.
The
cop
replied:
well,
I
tell
you:
if
you
go
down
between
3rd
and
4th
Avenue,
there
was
a
bar,
that's
owned
by
a
colored
person.
So
I
followed
his
directions.
There
sure
enough.
It
was
full
of
black
people.
They
really
looked
good
I
had
seen
any
for
a
while.
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D
Again,
the
city
tries
to
address
urban
blight,
focusing
on
Hennepin
and
Nicollet
federal
urban
renewal
funds
dry
up,
so
the
city
bulldozes
whole
districts,
hoping
private
developers
will
pay
to
build
on
vacant
and
through
tax
increment
financing,
a
new
era
of
begins
of
private
developers,
dramatically
altering
housing,
commercial
and
cultural
districts.
Meanwhile,.