Well I think what we need to do, the librarians, we all need to work together. The writers, the librarians, the teachers. I will say to people, for example when I present on George Washington Carver, he’s relevant beyond Black History Month because he wasn’t just Black enslaved person who became a scientist. He was an environmentalist so I’ll say to people so do we only need him in February, are we only concerned with the environment?
I think what we need to do is present Black people not as just Black people but their gift, present their gift. Like King, in the book, when the book on King came out and people said is it still relevant because after all I guess if I could afford it, I could fly first class and I would say have we achieved the beloved community? So when I’m working on a book like King, I’m going beyond Civil Rights leader. Yes, he was that, yes that’s important.
But, he was a humanitarian and therefore he’s relevant because we have not achieved the beloved community and people know little about agape. Love, as I say in the book, I believe I define it as it’s that harder, higher kind of love that has nothing to do with liking a person. Agape says see past the person’s sins to the soul God loves. I think, so it’s up to librarians and teachers and also to not just bring in Black authors during February. And to not just teach on Black achievers during February.