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Why it's time for bold library investment
The irony is that the very library services that current political discourse has sought to weaponize are ones that offer the greatest potential for bringing communities together.
When I was about 12 years old, the house next to ours was burned down. We had been cryptically forewarned. Late at night there had been a knock on the window, followed by the tip: "You should leave right now." My mom gathered us quickly, and we took refuge in a relative's home. By the time we returned from work and school the next day, the house that had once stood to our west was just a smoldering frame. The people who rented it had managed to escape unharmed, and we never saw them again.
I learned so much from that ruin. I learned the term flipping houses. I learned that wealthier people saw the homes in our neighborhood as "assets" but...