I can't wait to leave this state. Corruption is rampant, my city is about to be governed by a Marxist Somali (my Congresswoman is already a Marxist Somali). My governor is a Marxist moron, and the Democrats are bringing back the Confederacy, but with a twist. Social trust is being destroyed, and the state faces nothing but decline.
There are many examples, and the Washington Free Beacon provides yet another one.
“It is extremely hard to imagine how this could possibly be legal under either Title VI or Title IX to literally have programming explicitly open only to one race,” American Civil Rights Project executive director Dan Morenoff said, referring to federal civil rights laws that…
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 16, 2025
Segregation is back, and this time there isn't even the fig leaf of "Separate But Equal." Racial minorities are already performing at levels that would embarrass any decent human being, and the Minneapolis schools are doing everything they can to perpetuate a culture that is holding back black students from advancing in modern society.
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— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) October 16, 2025
The schools are offering courses that are available only to black or Hispanic students, excluding whites and Asians, based solely on their racial background.
Several Minneapolis public high schools prohibit white and Asian students from enrolling in a set of courses on black culture, documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The courses contribute toward Minneapolis Public Schools' (MPS) electives requirement, and white and Asian students must therefore choose from a narrower list of options in order to graduate.
One of the proscribed courses, "BLACK Culture – Building Lives Acquiring Cultural Knowledge," is open only to black men. Another, "BLACK Culture – Building Lives Acquiring Cultural Knowledge (Queens)," is open only to black women, a practice civil rights attorneys say almost certainly puts the schools in violation of civil rights law.
South High School, Minneapolis’s oldest and largest public high school where a large majority of students are black or Hispanic, lists the two courses in its 2025-2026 curriculum guide. The former examines "the complexity of the black male experience by exploring the lived reality of black men in the United States," the latter "the experiences of Black girls in public schools." The school's guide explicitly states the courses are open to "All black male students" and "All black female students," respectively.
I suppose, if you follow Ketanji Brown Jackson's logic, it's not excluding people by race but rather disability, at least for black students. African Americans, after all, are considered "disabled" by her.
Dear Justice Ketanji Brown,
— Common Cent$ (@Common_Cent1) October 15, 2025
WTF! I’m Black. Being Black does not make me disabled. I don’t want to be lumped with the disabled because I’m Black. 🗣️🎙️Do not speak for me with yo dumbass‼️🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love,
Common Cent$pic.twitter.com/ezEySWDrhR
Critical Legal Theory for the win!
Of course, those of us who live in the real world might view this differently for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the very attempt to preserve what the schools describe as "black culture" ensures that these students will have an even harder time matching the academic performance of their white peers.
The "BLACK Culture" courses are offered in collaboration with MPS's Office of Black Student Achievement, according to the course catalogs. "A lot of times within our education system, black students are expected to conform to a white standard," the director of the office, Dena Luna, told the Wall Street Journal in 2023. "In our spaces, you don’t have to shed one ounce of yourself because everything about our space is rooted in Blackness."
Luna's comments came in a Journal piece that highlighted "race-specific elective courses" in blue cities like Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco. The outlet noted "federal antidiscrimination laws prevent public schools from mandatorily separating students by race," but claimed "education lawyers say optional courses can comply with the law." The Journal did not quote any such lawyers, and Morenoff said the course being an elective is irrelevant in the eyes of the law.
"I am sure that there are those who would tell you that they could draw a distinction based on whether or not this was compulsory given the language of Title VI," he said. "I strongly doubt that those arguments are good."
"Is there a federal funding recipient?" Morenoff continued. "Yes. Does the federal funding recipient have a program that we're talking about? Yes. Is that program and its benefits being afforded to individuals or denied to individuals based on their race? The answer is very clearly yes. We're kind of done. It doesn't actually matter whether it's mandatory."
It is well-documented that Minnesota has some of the largest achievement gaps in student performance in the nation, and teaching courses that encourage students not to follow proven practices that lead to high performance will only make that worse.
Specifically, the report documents the crisis:
Minnesota has some of the largest gaps in the nation on outcome measures by race and socioeconomic status.
Our educational disparities are not confined to race; low- income white students significantly trail higher-income white students across Minnesota.
Disparities span all parts of the state and all types of schools, whether district or charter schools. This is not just a metro issue or a traditional public school issue.
Achievement gaps are evident across a variety of measures, including standardized test scores, graduation rates, and college readiness indicators.
Racial and income gaps in standardized test scores and college readiness have increased over time, while gaps in graduation rates have decreased.
Under Governor Walz, student performance has plummeted. Walz denies that performance is actually a good measure, though. Funding is much more important.
Walz was a teacher, so of course he would say that. The system exists for the benefit of adults, not kids.
Despite the emphasis, student achievement in Minnesota has been lagging for much of the past decade. While students in all states have struggled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disruptions of classroom instruction, test scores in Minnesota have fallen more sharply here than in the rest of the country.
“There are many factors that contribute to student academic achievement, and test scores are one important measure to help us understand how our students are doing,” said Anna Arkin of the Department of Education, in a statement. “The Walz-Flanagan administration has made historic investments in education to improve academic outcomes — including signing the largest education budget in state history and ensuring every student receives breakfast and lunch at school.”
The DFL’s 2023 education law boosted school funding and indexed the funding formula to inflation. It also increased special education subsidies, put $300 million toward early childhood education programs, and provided permanent funding for thousands of pre-K slots.
Minnesota recently ranked 19th among the states in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s long running education quality rankings, a drop from sixth place less than a decade ago. National benchmarks showed that in 2022, Minnesota fourth graders’ reading proficiency fell below the national average for the first time in history.
Bringing back racial segregation is totally on brand for liberals. Dividing the population by race is a key principle for the party, as it fits with their electoral strategy, just as pouring more money into bureaucracies to inflate the population of captured Democrat voters. (Teachers are overwhelmingly Democrat, with good reason. Their income depends on high taxes and massive spending.)
The victims of these policies are, of course, students who are already doing poorly.
I think that is the point. They need an uneducated population, angry at the system, to keep voting against the dominant culture that is associated with Republicans.
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