A woman in Minnesota used a state grant to open a food pantry that was only for “black and indigenous folx.”

From Daily Mail. The boss of a Minneapolis food pantry, funded by city taxpayers, has banned white people from taking advantage of the resource.

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Mykela ‘Keiko’ Jackson used a Minnesota State grant to launch the Food Trap Project Bodega designed to help poor and hungry residents living close to the Sanctuary Covenant Church in the north of the city.

The pantry only opened up on July 27 but within months it has been forced to close and relocate away from church grounds after Jackson attempted to block white people from accessing the service, including a local chaplain who complained.

A sign that on the door to the pantry reads how the food inside was specifically for ‘Black and Indigenous Folx’ only. After a civil rights complaint was made against the pantry by a local, Mykela accused the complainant of ‘political violence.’ …

Jackson used a Paths to Black Health grant which aims to reduce health disparities among African Americans while fostering a ‘vibrant and thriving’ community. …

But a number of reports have emerged suggesting how non-black residents are being denied access to the pantry, sowing the seeds of racial discrimination in an area considered to be an ethnically diverse.

The grant’s description states how the ‘funds are specifically designed to support organizations that work with U.S.-born African Americans… for whom studies indicate that health has been impacted as the result of historical trauma. This trauma includes post-traumatic slave syndrome (PTSS) and epigenetic inheritance.’

Chaplain Howard Dotson, 54, went to take a look at the pantry for himself, but claims how as a white man was refused service.

‘This is not building community, it’s destroying it,’ Dotson said to Alpha News. ‘I went over there and confronted her. I told her that I saw the sign and I asked if she really thought she could take grant money from the state and discriminate against poor white people.’

Dotson then filed a complaint with the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission. …

Jackson admitted to making the sign but stands by her position adding how she did not turn anyone away.

‘There was no one there directly turning them away. They felt entitled to the resources that were not for their demographic – white privilege is real,’ Jackson said accusing Dotson of ‘political violence’. …

The food pantry announced on its Instagram page that it is now moving location but claims the move has nothing to do with the current controversy. …

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(Excerpt from Daily Mail. Photo Credit: Aaron Doucett on Unsplash)