Public Libraries Quotes
The Kansas City Public Libraryhad been vandalized in the wake of the Donald Trump victory in the 2016 Presidntial race. Almost all of the racist, white supremicist, and Nazi organizations and their members were Trump supporters although Mr. Trump denied that he had ever overtly solicited their support, However hia frequent racist and misoginistic remarks attracted frings groups and people who had never before endorsed an American major party Presidential candidate. After Trups victory there was a large increase in the nunber of racist, religious and ethnic attacks against people and property, despite the fact that Trump had appeared on 60 Minutes and told these extremsits in no uncertain terms to "Stop". Neo Nazis and other White Supremecists generally do not with shows like 60 minutres however, and Trump and his staff made little effor to communicate Trums message through the vehicles that they communicagte through.
This decision did not extend the right of privacy of patrons of public libraries as to what material they access.
The first three public libraries had been opened in Rome under Augustus. By Constantine’s reign there were 28. Libraries at the time were not only repositories of books and manuscripts but places of social congregation of men—a cross between a men’s club and a modern library. In the great Roman library at Ephesus, an underground tunnel connected with the brothel across the street. When the barbarians invaded, all the libraries closed.
