You're welcome.
signed,
White people.
Posted on 04/17/2019 2:59:30 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Dunno.
The National Parks I’ve hiked in seemed to have lots of Mexican nationals growing pot.
I retreated carefully.
My suggestion is for POC’s to step up and start writing. Have a lot to do to catch up. If not mistaken, Africa never developed a written language.
She is from “unceded Wampanoag land”? What kind of Wampanoag name is “Leung”?
“How many non white men and women created the internet”?
Quiet. Algore will claim that he’s part Indian or some other “person of color”.
Yes, books need to be printed on colored paper using various colors for the printing instead of relegating black to letters only.
Not sure, but they do make the most ruckus. They sleep there when it’s open and where they charge their phones until they get booted out...
The most “interesting” of them all is the Hollywood public library close to us. This is probably the only library in the US where they need at least 2 LAPD cars parked when it’s open due to some ‘activities’.
Are there many libraries in Africa? And are they used??
They are crybullies.
You're welcome.
signed,
White people.
They say that like it's a bad thing.
Sounds like she's advocating book burning.
I was at the relatively new San Diego Main Public Library, a big improvement over the old building, where I witnessed a homeless (I assume) person taking a sponge bath in the bathroom. But even he was white!
So, what do they want to do, pick up a few Black people on the street and force them into the library at gunpoint?
This whole thing is ridiculous.
The libraries are there for those who want to use them.
So non white people who don’t want to go to the library should be forced?
I care about what so called ‘minorities’ think about as much as they care what I think.
Are White Men Gods? (II): Getting the Facts Straight
https://fredoneverything.org/are-white-men-gods-ii-getting-the-facts-straight/
Should be posted wherever race-hustling Leftists are playing their games.
“Western civilization was too white”
Crayons should be provided at lie-braries so every text can have colored pages and offensive passages can be redacted.
I know not whether an account is given of the means I used to establish the Philadelphia public library, which, from a small beginning, is now become so considerable, though I remember to have come down to near the time of that transaction (1730). I will therefore begin here with an account of it, which may be struck out if found to have been already given.
At the time I establish’d myself in Pennsylvania, there was not a good bookseller's shop in any of the colonies to the southward of Boston. In New York and Philad’a the printers were indeed stationers; they sold only paper, etc., almanacs, ballads, and a few common school-books. Those who lov’d reading were oblig’d to send for their books from England; the members of the Junto had each a few. We had left the alehouse, where we first met, and hired a room to hold our club in. I propos’d that we should all of us bring our books to that room, where they would not only be ready to consult in our conferences, but become a common benefit, each of us being at liberty to borrow such as he wish’d to read at home. This was accordingly done, and for some time contented us.
Finding the advantage of this little collection, I propos’d to render the benefit from books more common, by commencing a public subscription library. I drew a sketch of the plan and rules that would be necessary, and got a skilful conveyancer, Mr. Charles Brockden, to put the whole in form of articles of agreement to be subscribed, by which each subscriber engag’d to pay a certain sum down for the first purchase of books, and an annual contribution for increasing them. So few were the readers at that time in Philadelphia, and the majority of us so poor, that I was not able, with great industry, to find more than fifty persons, mostly young tradesmen, willing to pay down for this purpose forty shillings each, and ten shillings per annum. On this little fund we began. The books were imported; the library was opened one day in the week for lending to the subscribers, on their promissory notes to pay double the value if not duly returned. The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no publick amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books, and in a few years were observ’d by strangers to be better instructed and more intelligent than people of the same rank generally are in other countries.
When we were about to sign the above-mentioned articles, which were to be binding upon us, our heirs, etc., for fifty years, Mr. Brockden, the scrivener, said to us, “You are young men, but it is scarcely probable that any of you will live to see the expiration of the term fix’d in the instrument.” A number of us, however, are yet living; but the instrument was after a few years rendered null by a charter that incorporated and gave perpetuity to the company.
The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the impropriety of presenting one’s self as the proposer of any useful project, that might be suppos’d to raise one’s reputation in the smallest degree above that of one’s neighbors, when one has need of their assistance to accomplish that project. I therefore put myself as much as I could out of sight, and stated it as a scheme of a number of friends, who had requested me to go about and propose it to such as they thought lovers of reading. In this way my affair went on more smoothly, and I ever after practis’d it on such occasions; and, from my frequent successes, can heartily recommend it. The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterwards be amply repaid. If it remains a while uncertain to whom the merit belongs, some one more vain than yourself will be encouraged to claim it, and then even envy will be disposed to do you justice by plucking those assumed feathers, and restoring them to their right owner.
This library afforded me the means of improvement by constant study, for which I set apart an hour or two each day, and thus repair’d in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me. Reading was the only amusement I allow’d myself. I spent no time in taverns, games, or frolicks of any kind; and my industry in my business continu’d as indefatigable as it was necessary.
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