For years, the state has wrongly convinced itself that its Black residents suffer from a deeply racist past. Progressives made a key error, confusing the situation of new immigrants who happen to be Black Africans with those who are the descendants of American slaves. But they were sure they had to correct the past with dramatic policy changes.

But Minneapolis went into "how to be anti-racist" overdrive. Led by liberal Mayor Jacob Frey — who’d become notorious when he failed to crack down on the riots that followed the death of George Floyd— the city approved a law abolishing all single-family zoning in Minneapolis. He made clear that doing so was a form of reparations. Per Mayor Frey,... See more