Justin Ellis

@justinellis.bsky.social

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Projects & Podcast editor for Defector.com Order my book: The Cruelty of Nice Folks, here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-cruelty-of-nice-folks-justin-ellis?variant=44065276493858

I feel like what Minneapolis and Minnesota settled on is this thing that became this broader project of liberal thinking and liberal governing, that you view racism through these public-private partnerships or that you do it through these byzantine systems where you look at things like tax credits or vouchers as ways to have the state help people. You're identifying people's needs, but you're doing it in this way that is confusing and oftentimes creates more work for people when they just have simple problems that they want addressed. That's a thing I did not know I was going to be confronting in the book. I was trying to navigate the shitty bureaucracy of the healthcare system with my mom's care; I hadn't really thought about how that paralleled the ways in which Minneapolis has thought about how to address the problems of structural inequity and racism.