Opinion: Minnesota should deploy the National Guard so kids can safely attend school
- harris59
- 5 hours ago
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In this opinion piece for The Minnesota Star Tribune, Duchess writes that decades ago, the National Guard was called in to help desegregate schools in Arkansas. It could be used again today to stabilize schools amid fears about ICE enforcement.
"As we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I return to the question King posed near the end of his life. “Where do we go from here?” Perhaps the first step is an honest reckoning — recognizing that we have been here before, and that we will return here again if we fail to acknowledge a fundamental truth. The past is not past; it is present."
