Books to the Community Library

Books I bought (used) or collected for the community bookshelf at George Floyd Square---thanks, blog-friends who contributed!

I'm going to take a few books over every day.
Once I'd taken a bunch of nice toys over, and I saw one woman take them all. It's not my role to police the library (godforbid!), but I want to spread out the good stuff.
(I haven't seen any resellers there---pickings would be slim, and I'd think the setting would be discouraging... "Don't steal from the Revolutionaries".)

You know I like to make little displays. Not all the books here are from me, of course. The Children's Homer? Yeah, that's been sitting there a long time.

I am gradually replacing some of the tattered old books that just take up space with books of higher interest and in better shape--books people will take away with them.

They don't have to be about race or by or about Black, Indigeous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islanders, and other people of color, they can just be anything people might want to read.
Tolkien, possibly.
Or murder mysteries.
It sure isn't like everyone wants to read Educational Materials all the time! but we do seem to prefer clean books with covers intact.

"The New Yoga"

Just read the July New Yorker article on Ishmael Reed and laughed to read:

"He’s unimpressed by the recent Black Lives Matter-inspired wave of interest in anti-racist reading, which he dismisses as hyper-focussed on “life-coaching books about how to get along with Black people.”
Anti-racism, he said, is “the new yoga.” "

LOL. It's almost like Black is the new black...

From the Washington Post article, "When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs", June 11, 2020,
by Tre Johnson (his first book, Black Genius: Our Celebrations and Our Destructions is due out in 2023):

"The confusing, perhaps contradictory advice on what white people should do probably feels maddening. To be told to step up, no step back, read, no listen, protest, don’t protest, check on black friends, leave us alone, ask for help or do the work — it probably feels contradictory at times.

And yet, you’ll figure it out.

Black people have been similarly exhausted making the case for jobs, freedom, happiness, justice, equality and the like. It’s made us dizzy, but we’ve managed to find the means to walk straight."