EXACTLY! I belonged to a book club at my local library. After "White Fragility", a Ta-Nehisi Coates book, an Ibram X. Kendi book and another whose author slips my mind all within a six month period, I suggested we may want to read books that offered an opposing perspective otherwise it was little more than indoctrination. The response wa…
EXACTLY! I belonged to a book club at my local library. After "White Fragility", a Ta-Nehisi Coates book, an Ibram X. Kendi book and another whose author slips my mind all within a six month period, I suggested we may want to read books that offered an opposing perspective otherwise it was little more than indoctrination. The response was that those were all best sellers and the library was trying to provide access to those. I suggested maybe we could read "Maverick" by Jason Riley or "White Guilt" by Shelby Steele or, heck, even Candace Owens book if the only criteria was it be a best seller either by a black person! Of course, I was turned down and promptly quit the book club that I had been attending for more than a decade. All of the members were middle aged or middle aged + white women and a couple of white men. I've tried finding the book, "Start up Nation" about Israel...not there. Tried a number of best selling books by conservatives over the last 6 months...also not there and not on order. It's exhausting and disheartening.
And now my library wants $35MILLION to renovate, just the BRANCH, not the network, primarily to expand meeting space. It’s absurd, and I will be at the public meeting to say so.
EXACTLY! I belonged to a book club at my local library. After "White Fragility", a Ta-Nehisi Coates book, an Ibram X. Kendi book and another whose author slips my mind all within a six month period, I suggested we may want to read books that offered an opposing perspective otherwise it was little more than indoctrination. The response was that those were all best sellers and the library was trying to provide access to those. I suggested maybe we could read "Maverick" by Jason Riley or "White Guilt" by Shelby Steele or, heck, even Candace Owens book if the only criteria was it be a best seller either by a black person! Of course, I was turned down and promptly quit the book club that I had been attending for more than a decade. All of the members were middle aged or middle aged + white women and a couple of white men. I've tried finding the book, "Start up Nation" about Israel...not there. Tried a number of best selling books by conservatives over the last 6 months...also not there and not on order. It's exhausting and disheartening.
And now my library wants $35MILLION to renovate, just the BRANCH, not the network, primarily to expand meeting space. It’s absurd, and I will be at the public meeting to say so.