Why are we closing the door on the Harlem Library when this resource is most needed in our community? Reading equals freedom! We must find ways to keep our library open as our children are our most valuable resource.

Why in the world would the city want to shut down the library in Harlem? Could it be what I have talked about for years, that there are some people in control, who by all means, do not want some to have available education and move up the proverbial ladder in the country? I really think Black and Latino/a and whites considered the other need to join together and fight for their rights and education. I know that there are folks who will try to break you apart , turn you against one another because I read. Yes , I read history books and everything I get my hands on. Africans and the Irish were once a force to be reckoned with but the Irish were allowed to work themselves out of enslavement and forget in fact start to hate the Black people they had loved and married as slaves. The First People of the united states do not often mention the African or African American in their history in a positive manner in this country. Many African Americans are part Irish and French and Native American or Spanish, that does not happen just by thinking it into truth. Poor Whites were told to hate the Black enslave because it was the enslaved who kept them from pick'en all that cotton. I have seen many things and traveled . I have seen how Blacks cope with living in the western hemisphere. they have given in to Whites or Latinos or First people (Native Americans) so as to be acceptable enough to live in peace. To be tolerated by others is not acceptance,it is not respect. People in Harlem please become vocal and pushy and educated and join together to keep Harlem at least partly ethnic. I see it being taken by money and new buildings and whatever,from those who have been there awhile. Now that Harlem is being fixed up. why is it not for those who are there and not just those who want to take it over. The prices are getting so high that many people will have to leave and where are they going? Living well is for everyone. Fight;intelligently. With respect to you all