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Heh. Irony.

All the Anglo kids I had seen act up in the local library and yet it was a quiet little black girl who provoked the one complaint I had seen an adult library patron register about a kid's behavior.

Her offense: sitting quietly on a chair with a book and a backpack, waiting patiently for her mother to finish her work on the library' s computer system.

Apparently, another patron -- i.e., an Anglo patron -- thought this behavior should be discouraged. So he complained to the librarian. The librarian had a conversation with the mother, the mother got upset and left with her little girl, and the patron who had complained took over the computer that the black woman had been using.

In the meantime, I could not help but remember all the white kids who had talked quite loudly in this area without receiving one complaint from the other patrons.

Sitting quietly in a library. Apparently that had become the type of behavior to be discouraged.

Unless, of course, you choose to believe that there was another reason for this incident...