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From the Magazine

The American Nightmare

Thank you so much for Clinton Collins, Jr.’s column [“Ghetto is as Ghetto Does,” Free the Jackson Five!, July]. I built a house in North Minneapolis in 2002 and am now regretting that I did. Before I moved, I thought that the brothers were always getting hassled by the police. My views have changed now. I wanted the American dream. My dream has turned into a nightmare. My neighbors rarely come outside. I can sit in my window and watch a drug deal or prostitutes walking the street.

Name Withheld By Request
Hawthorne Neighborhood, Minneapolis

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