St. Paul mayoral candidate Dai Thao promises to fight inequality
October 6, 2017
Dai Thao doesn’t like being underestimated.
“As early as elementary school, he spotted inequalities. He challenged the teacher of his English as a Second Language class: Why weren’t they learning what other students learned? Why were the expectations lower?
“She told me I could leave,” said Thao, a St. Paul City Council member who came to the United States from Thailand with his family as a boy. “So I just got up, and I left.”
It would be a recurring theme in the years to come: Thao, frustrated by inequity and injustice, trying to do something about it.” Read more.
