White Moderate by Sha Towers

White Moderate explores the often invisible,  interior forces that have shaped our world. In a time filled with highly visible hatred and oppression, let us not forget the less visible yet equally destructive forces of silence and inaction. This artist's book highlights excerpts of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 letter from the Alabama jail lamenting the "white moderate" response to civil rights issues. Like a prophet of Israel, MLK condemns the silent and actionless for being "more devoted to order than to justice," and laments that they equate peace with the "absence of tension" and value this over justice.   White Moderate is an accordion structure with hand lettered calligraphic text.