After 41 years, Tiger Bay political club discusses racism in St. Pete
Monday, July 15, 2019
July 15, 2019
Some of the realities of blacks and whites living side by side in St. Pete were discussed at the Suncoast Tiger Bay Club during their lunch meeting entitled “Race & The Legacy of Racism in the ‘Burg” held Thursday, June 27 at the St. Pete Yacht Club.
Tiger Bay is a non-partisan political club that was created in 1978 to foster a better understanding of public issues.
But while the June lunch discussion was the first time in the group’s 41-year history that it focused solely on race in the city, club president Elise Minkoff promised it would not be the last, noting that the lunch crowd’s attendance for that event was the largest so far in 2019.
Panel members included community activist and president of the African American Heritage Association Gwendolyn Reese, faith and community leader Imam Askia Muhammad Aquil, grassroots activist Winnie Foster and Tim Dutton, executive director of UNITE Pinellas, which has a mission to increase equity in all areas in the county.
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