Dem trans kids enthusiast Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan claimed Minnesota was built on ‘white supremacy,’ black Americans ‘not safe’

On Tuesday this week, Flanagan, who previously wore a “Protect Trans Kids” shirt featuring a tactical knife, said in a post to social media, “I love Minnesota. I’m proud to be a Minnesotan. Who wouldn’t be?”

The post was an apparent jab at GOP nominee for the seat Michele Tafoya, who had said that Minnesota has been going in the wrong direction because of fraud.

But despite the apparent attempt from Flanagan to shame Tafoya about the comments, Flanagan has said some of her own statements which would appear to be contrary to her post that said she "loves" the state.

In an interview with NPR following George Floyd's death in 2020, Flanagan said the state was "incredible" but only if you are white. “We’ve got a really incredible state — if you’re white. If you are a person of color, if you are indigenous, if you are an immigrant or refugee, the opposite is true," she said at the time.

In the same interview, she said that Minnesota has been built on "white supremacy."

She said, "...white supremacy. It is what the state has been built on, and unless we tackle it in a really aggressive way, we are not going to see the systematic change that we need."

A year later, while she was issuing a statement about the death of Daunte Wright who was killed when an officer mistook her gun for a taser, Flanagan called for “rethinking policing and rethinking crowd control when people express righteous and justifiable outrage that our state is not safe for Black people.”

Flanagan, who is far to the left but has not been endorsed by the DSA, has the backing of far-left Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders as well as Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.