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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Little Free Library honored Michelle Obama. Vandals tagged it 'Trump's'.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-little-free-library-honored-michelle-obama-vandals-tagged-it-trumps/2018/11/23/8dbfdc70-edbf-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.htmlA Little Free Library honored Michelle Obama. Vandals tagged it Trumps.
By Michael E. Miller
November 24 at 6:11 PM
This Little Free Library, erected eight blocks from the White House and dedicated to former first lady Michelle Obama, has been vandalized several times. The glass and door are broken in this photo, taken in June. (Michael E. Miller/The Washington Post)
When someone wrote Michelle Obamas name on the dilapidated little library, the vandalism returned. Earlier this month, someone scribbled on Obamas name and tagged the structure with President Trumps name. (Michael E. Miller/The Washington Post)
The Little Free Library went up a week after the inauguration, its wooden walls painted to evoke the White House eight blocks away. But if the book box coincided with President Trump taking office, its tiny plaque pined for the previous administration.
In Honor of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, it said. Lawyer, writer, and First Lady of the United States.
For a year, few seemed to notice the dedication. Then the attacks began.
The librarys small glass window was smashed in the spring. Its plaque was ripped off over the summer. And when neighbors replaced the plaque with a photo of the former first lady, that, too, was quickly torn down.
Then, earlier this month, Obamas name was crossed out and replaced with another.
Trumps, the vandal wrote in black marker.
Who would do that? wondered Maureen Dolan-Galaviz, who erected the library outside her home at 16th and Q streets in Northwest Washington in early 2017. If there is one thing that should be off limits its the idea that we all deserve access to books.
Once a source of neighborhood unity, the library has like so much in the United States these days become a point of tension.
The vandalism has unfolded in Dupont Circle in a city where just 4 percent of voters supported Trump.
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A Little Free Library honored Michelle Obama. Vandals tagged it 'Trump's'. (Original Post)
dalton99a
Nov 2018
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WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)1. Attach hidden security cameras to nearby houses/trees...
then catch, arrest, prosecute and punish the vandals.
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)2. Yep, Cameras, cameras, cameras
And if the vandalism continues after 1 arrest, then so it is.
Takket
(21,702 posts)3. exactly. put everything back the way it was and wait for the depolorable to come back
deplorables are like vermin that destroy beauty everywhere they go. the term "there goes the neighborhood" that racists always used should apply to DEPLORABLES
mopinko
(70,337 posts)5. a nice way to round up the idiots.
clean up the hood a bit. i like it.
sadly, a lot of these little libraries get vandalized. and cleaned out by book fences.
why we cant have nice things #1,476,879.
FSogol
(45,582 posts)4. "Who would do that?" - A typical Republican would do that.
Cha
(298,018 posts)6. Jealous ASS Brainwashed trump IDIOTS.
BlueInRedHell
(100 posts)7. ...who love that their imbecilic president doesn't read!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)8. Trump's name on a library
any library, is a joke. Including a presidential library. I doubt if he's read a book all the way through in his entire life. Maybe he's looked at the pictures, but that's it.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)10. He's read one book in his life
The Art of the Deal
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)12. Not sure if he's read that
If there are pictures of himself in it (I've never read the thing) he'd admire them.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,430 posts)11. It'll probably be something like this
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,430 posts)9. We have a couple of those in my neighborhood.
This just proves what a bunch of jackasses the Trumpers are.