Writers criticize independent bookstore for its half-assed Black Lives Matter statement
After being relatively silent on protests surrounding the murder of George Floyd, the store’s co-owners. Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan, two white people,, one of the many situations where“saying less” might have been the better option.
More significant, though, is our nearly 50-year policy of not engaging in public debate. For Tattered Cover to shout this from the rooftops, to drape our spaces with banners proclaiming these simple and unalterable truths, would be anathema to a different principle that we also hold dear, and one that is central, we believe, to the role of an independent bookstore.
Ted Nugent, a controversial and outspoken advocate of gun rights, was scheduled to appear at Tattered Cover not long after the Columbine High School shooting — the first school shooting in what would be a horrifically sad trend of school shootings in the two decades to follow. Mr. Nugent’s comments about Columbine were both insensitive and abhorrent. Yet, despite staff opposition and the threat of violence, Tattered Cover went forward with the event.
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