Reading these articles about how people around this nation is banning books is not surprising. What’s even scarier are the bills being passed because state governments don’t want to upset or make white folks uncomfortable about race. Sounds like we are heading in the complete opposite direction and repeating history with Black codes and Jim Crow. Segregation. Lynching. Etc etc. Performative recognition of Black lives is just that. Performative. When George Floyd was murdered and the entire nation erupted, the “we stand with Black lives” didn’t really stand. It was flimsy. Performative. Putting kente cloth images around items to promote Black artists but not giving space on the marketing board or the entire higher management is not representative of the consumers is utterly disgusting. Banning books is not changing a thing. I encourage and challenge us all to buy the books that get banned. Share them with others. Buy them as gifts. Suggest them as Bookclub reads. Whatever you can do. Knowledge is power and our children definitely need to read all the books being kept from them. It’s imperative. #mysundayrant #readreadread #write #maddblackreads ##diversespines #goodreads #blackreaders #booksofinstagram #bookstagram #booknerdigans #bookaholic #bookaddict #bookstagrammer #diversebooks #bookworm #blackgirlsread #lovetoread #blackwomenread #readblackbooks #blackandbookish #bookreview #blackstoriesmatter #blackbookblogger #bookclubofinstagram #moodreader #readwhatyouown #bibliophile https://www.instagram.com/p/CZqQPLlrgAV/?utm_medium=tumblr