Farmington, New Mexico Public Library review: From the vantage point of a library patron, reverse-racism

Please make sure the Farmington Public Library is not showing Navajo preference in its hiring practices, particularly at the circulation desk, which is the most visible area of the library. We need to see a good mix of white and others there. Farmington is an American city in an American state. It is not an extension of the Navajo Reservation. Public libraries need to be about everyone. Farmington still has a large number of white inhabitants - fair-skinned people who identify as Caucasian or Anglo-Saxon, and not necessarily as Native American or Hispanic.

When we only see brown-skinned people at the circulation desk, and when they only seem to be Native American, with Navajos the most likely, it is very depressing and insulting to the white inhabitants of Farmington.

Mature, evolved and well-read people do not turf their libraries with brown-skinned people, particularly Navajos, to show signs of power or ownership of the library's public spaces.