Minneapolis 600260511

Tyeastia Green is accusing City Council President Jenkins and Council Member Vetaw, both of them Black, of "antiblackness."

City of Minneapolis

Minneapolis' recently departed race and inclusion director isn't leaving without a fight.

In a memo sent before she departed last week as director of the Department of Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, Tyeastia Green is alleging a "toxic work environment" at City Hall and accusing several senior Black officials of "antiblack racism," including City Council President Andrea Jenkins and Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw.

City officials responded Monday in a statement that said they are reviewing Green's memo and that "professional staff" will decide whether to investigate further. "The city disagrees with the characterization of the events outlined in the memo," according to the statement.

Vetaw defended her actions. As of Monday evening, Jenkins had not responded to requests for comment.

In her memo dated March 6, Green states that "what I have experienced here is, in fact, antiblack racism and that some of that racism was done at the hands of other Black people in the enterprise."

She continues that having been "in the belly of the beast for nearly a year ... Minneapolis holds, matures, coddles, perpetuates, and massages a racist anti-black work culture."

The effects of the potentially incendiary 14-page memo are hard to predict in a city that has grappled with racial reckoning since the 2020 murder of...

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiiQFodHRwczovL3d3dy5zdGFydHJpYnVuZS5j...