love your local library

hope you do cause my local library sucks! it's one of the most obvious manifestations of how segregated america truly is. a poor neighborhood doesn't get the financial benefits of a well to do one. also, it seems, the poor will put up with the unfair treatment.

my library is a case in point. there are hardly any books in it! the few stacks that exist in the adult section are barely half full. the children's section fares better and the staff is trying but there's no push from the neighborhood or the politicians to make things better.

my local school is in the same shape. i think i've got more books in my house than they have in the school library! i kid you not. there's one computer in each classroom and the kids never get on it.

segregation in this country has shifted from black and white to rich and poor. classism is an old predator that back on the prowl.