This wasn’t a million years ago. This was a moment ago: The realization that the public library—idealized as a democratic place of learning and sanctuary, where the life of the mind was more ostensibly important than the color of skin—was not a haven for all was not new. As scholar Karla Holloway has written in BookMarks:…
Sorry, ‘we’ don’t keep books from kids. WE continue to elect recidivist Luddites to office and they keep books from kids. Local elections matter.