"So much so, that one dealer once told a Franklin
Avenue storeowner that he had come to Minneapolis and
started his business within a few hours.
He said everyone (even in Chicago) knew about how good
Chicago and Franklin in Minneapolis was, so he just
caught a plane from Chicago Illinois and at
the Minneapolis airport asked to be taken to Chicago
and Franklin. Within minutes he was busy filling
orders."
Jim Graham
How was he filling orders? Did he bring the drugs
with him from Chicago? This is the kind of "a friend
of a friend" told me story that really doesn't make
any sense when you think about it.
While I agree with most of the rest of this post, this
story really get me mad because it perpetuates a
widely, but wrongly, held belief that many of our
problems come from Chicago.
I have even had people tell me that they know someone
who knows someone who came here from Chicago just for
the welfare benefits. Well, I will tell you no one
moves from Chicago to Minneapolis for $427 cash and
$212 food each month, which is what a single mother
and one child gets from the County for public
assistance.
I think the Chicago stories I hear are really codes
for "there are too many young black people on the
street and it makes me nervous"
Mark Wilde
Windom Park
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