Three movies and a book that I saw/read recently, that I keep thinking about

[willamette]

4. That is the insidiousness of the book banning, etc.

In my opinion, by banning the books that tell us about how our compatriots live and experience the world, we don't learn about the past or the present. By banning Critical Race Theory (learning about Structural Racism in our institutions) and history that includes all of us, people in any of the targeted/omitted castes/classifications don't soak in the knowledge that their treatment is wrong, and that others have fought, and sometimes won, these battles. Here's how to do it: see (hypothetical) page 43. I often think that there should be more articles and books about how people escaped the ghettos, extermination camps, and roundups. To me, that is more useful information than how little space they had in the barracks.

I too was raised in that time frame in a mysteriously all white caste subdivision. It was VA subsidized, but just for that caste. I just thought that there weren't any marginalized people who wanted to live there. Nary a word was heard about segregation or red-lining. When I later found out that my father was a bigot, and that he prevented my mother from selling the family home to a Negro classified family, I was astonished. Had I been British, I would have been gob-smacked. He never let on that all of that nasty behavior was hiding inside of him, just waiting to come out. Lordy, I wonder what he'd have done had he lived to see The Convicted Felon holding office.

Is the book that you are listening to now interesting? Might I like to read it ... ?

Thank you for your kind words (Thank you for the Thank you).