Kansas MassResistance activist shuts down local library’s “Racial Justice Book Club” – by politely pointing out facts and logical inconsistencies!

Book club used American Library Association’s radical guidelines to disseminate leftist propaganda.

Facilitators abruptly ended the club rather than include diverse opinions.

June 4, 2025

The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library went radical – until a Kansas MassResistance activist stepped in!

We love to relate how one unafraid, clear-thinking person can make a big difference. Here’s how a MassResistance activist won a victory against toxic leftist lunacy.

Topeka, Kansas is not considered a hotbed of radical leftism. But as in many relatively “red” areas, the hard Left controls the public library system and uses it to spread propaganda.

One method for stoking the radical agenda is to utilize the far-left American Library Association’s guidelines and resources for creating public “book clubs” that affirm and ignite anti-American issues – such as the claim of “structural racism” – in the local community.

From the ALA’s radical book club resource page. Their term for them is “Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation” (TRHT) Great Stories Clubs.

Kathy, a fearless MassResistance activist in Topeka, is an attorney who has done First Amendment work. She was an English major in college and reads widely.

She’s also interested in where her tax money goes. So when the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library advertised that it was hosting a “Racial Justice Book Club” in conjunction with the (far-left) local YWCA that was open to the public, she decided to join.

A troubling introduction

From the start, the Racial Justice Book Club was different from a normal book club. Kathy described what happened when she first approached the head of it to ask about joining:

The facilitator I spoke with was very lovely when I first inquired. Then I told her that one reason I wanted to join – besides loving book clubs – was because I had a question to ask: “I often hear that our country is so racist and horrible to ‘black and brown’ people. But how can that be true, since people of color are the vast majority who risk everything to come here? If that were so, why would they stay and work here – and then send for their families too?”

In an instant, this woman changed from being nice and welcoming to downright ugly. She glared at me and snarled: “If you have questions like that, I wonder why you’d even want to join our book club!” Nevertheless, she couldn’t simply turn me away.

A gathering of leftists…and hard leftists

The club participants included about 10 people, ranging in age from their early 20s to 80s. On the surface, they were all very nice. But they were all on board with the club’s agenda. The younger ones, in particular, seemed unaware that there were any other than leftist opinions on the race issue. It was as if they had never heard that our country was essentially good and benevolent.

The club’s “facilitators” were key. Both were young women (early 30s and mid-20s). One was an employee of the YWCA and the other worked for the library. For both, it was gospel to hate being white and frequently proclaim their guilt. But the creepiest thing, said Kathy, was that they regularly made vile remarks about Republicans, conservatives, and religious and traditional Americans – but in the most dulcet tones. They affected gentle smiles and soft voices while saying vicious things.

The meetings start slowly…

Interestingly, the books the club included were not pushing the facilitators’ hard-line messages initially. The classic leftist approach, which the ALA advises, is to start with relatively low-key subjects to instill the basic ideas, and then quickly raise the level to anguished and extreme concern.

As Kathy related:

For the first four months of the book club, they had benign lectures about different subjects as well as non-suspicious reading assignments. Some of the books touched on the subjects of minorities fighting for success in the early 1920s and 1930s in America. The discussions about prejudice seemed legitimate. They had a lecture on voting rights. It didn’t seem all that bad.

…Then the full-steam radicalism began!

Then came two books that showed the ugly racialism of the club’s intent. Members were assigned two books for reading and discussion: Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang and Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy by Tiffany Cross.

Beautiful Country describes how the author and her family fled Communist China and came to New York City in the early 1990s as “illegal” immigrants. She was a child at the time. The author ultimately received a great education and scholarships, and today is a well-known and very wealthy lawyer. Yet in the book she mercilessly derides New York and the U.S. She rants about the city’s unaffordable health care for poor people, the expense and scarcity of food (even bad food), working in sweatshops just to make a meager living, institutionalized racism against Chinese, public school discrimination against immigrants, etc. The message is that America is a terrible place for poor or non-white people to live.

The second book, Say It Louder!, is even more venomous. Author Tiffany Cross, had hosted a program on MSNBC called “Cross Connection.” She was very publicly fired in 2022 for her racist remarks that were too extreme even for far-left MSNBC! Among other things, she blamed statewide election results in Virginia on “white supremacy” and stated that “powerful white people” are working to “replace” people of other races. The book is a continuation of that train of thought, said Kathy. The book’s premise is that “blacks in the US are in exactly the same position as they were during slavery. Moreover, Republicans and conservatives are racists and Judeo-Christian beliefs are disgusting.”

Kathy responds – which ultimately derails the class

All this was jarring for Kathy, to say the least. At that discussion, she gave a counterpoint to both books.

She took on Beautiful Country directly. She said that New York City is her hometown and she lived and worked there up through the early 1990s. She said that the statements in the book about conditions in New York were simply false, and she pointed to several specifically. New York at that time was in many ways just the opposite!

Then Kathy moved on to Say It Louder! She said that the author’s claims about blacks being treated exactly like pre-Civil War slaves and all Republicans being racists are without proof of any kind. Without actual evidence, such assertions are meritless, she said. They’re simply disconnected rantings that make no logical sense.

The facilitators were shocked; they didn’t want to hear anything negative about either book. Then a strange thing happened: They stood and whispered to each other right in front of Kathy and the others. Everyone seemed uncomfortable with that.

They told Kathy that “we shouldn’t judge” the authors (a common leftist retort). Kathy replied that both authors were “judging” a lot of things very negatively: Whites, America, Republicans. In fact, the club’s entire perspective was judgmental. So surely, we should all be free to discuss that, she said. The facilitators did not respond but were obviously displeased.

Then things completely fell apart. One of the other club members, an older man, did respond. He let loose with a level of hatred against “Donald Trump, and all his supporters” which was astonishing. He fumed that Trump’s whole campaign is all about racism. (Up to this point no one in the group had discussed their political affiliation.) Kathy then stated that she is a Trump supporter and that no Trump supporters she knows are racist. This seemed to enrage the man even more. Kathy noted that neither of the facilitators said one word to this man, though he was clearly “judging” others.

The meeting ended soon after that. It was to be the last meeting. Shortly after the session, the facilitators sent an email announcing the club was “paused.” That was several months ago, and there’s been no word of it continuing.

Final thoughts

This episode illustrates the far-reaching impact of the leftist American Library Association. The organization emboldens librarians everywhere to incorporate radical ideologies and materials and disseminate them using group management strategies.

As we all see everywhere these days, leftists are emboldened when pushing their agenda with impunity and unchallenged. But below the surface, they are intellectual (and emotional) weaklings – and even one strong person can take down the house of cards!