UPDATED in the comments
Remember poet Amanda Gorman from Biden's inauguration? I cried as she spoke. (See very bottom for a reminder video)
ONE person was offended by a black poet, yet does not even attibute the actual author or even fill in the portion thats asks what she OBJECTED to!... ONE parent was able to remove content from the elementary section of a school. One illiterate and misinformed bigoted POS parent that you can find more about below.
The pages that are considered offensive amd full of hate? This can only be from a MAGA person who is so racist that they want to return to the greatness of America when the white person ruled, saying that America and its justice system are imperfect is not acceptable?
And now not just one school, but the county...
Wait, there's more...
Daily Salinas' social media shows she’s with the far-right group Moms for Liberty, supports the Proud Boys and adds antisemitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” conspiracy content.
There is so much more, but will not add the Twatter thread to give them clicks.
https://pen.org to donate
Learn more about the MFL here:
Husband of Moms For Liberty Co-founder, Accused of Sexual Assault
Learn more about Bridget Ziegler here: https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/main/comment/3bff1d1d-cc73-4df5-a26d-b082859d0a06 and her projects here: Scary RWNJ Clinic and Children's Playground in Florida
Also, A Moms for Liberty leader is a child rapist. https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/a-moms-for-liberty-leader-is-a-child-rapist/
It has grown quickly, and is on the SPLC hate list... for a reason or 100: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moms-liberty
UPDATE 7
Palm Bay candidate Chandler Langevin says we should be teaching our children to look up to confederate soldiers.
Florida, where you cannot say gay or be woke and teach history and slavery as it makes white children and their parents uncomfortable...
Palm Bay candidate Chandler with his live-in GF Jade Zakewski who is a leader in Moms for Liberty. These people are the groomers coming for your kids... in schools, libraries, city hall, and all local as well as state and federal politics. Thet are presently advocating for charter schools, taxpayer paid of course, and Chad is on the board of the largest one.
https://thespacecoastrocket.com/palm-bay-candidate-says-we-should-be-teaching-our-children-to-look-up-to-confederate-soldiers/
He also ran in 2022.
And 2023, but dropped out
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/619922-chandler-langevin-drops-out-of-hd-33-race-endorses-monique-miller/
I wonder if he is a Proud Boy...
https://thespacecoastrocket.com/candidate-chandler-langevin-launches-full-assault-against-incumbent-thad-altman-in-first-campaign-ad/
UPDATE 6
Moms for Liberty school board member busted for shoplifting from Target
https://www.rawstory.com/keri-blair-moms-for-liberty/
UPDATE 5
I expounded on this in the post: A Moms for Liberty leader is a child rapist.
I wonder how many will be surprised to find that:
Moms for Liberty leader turns out to be a convicted sex offender
The projection from the GOP*Grand Old Pedo" Party is no surprise at all...
This person has made lists of Republican sexual predators, pedos, abusers…since 2018. There are now 48 lists HERE: https://www.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook
UPDATE 4
A little good news... Moms for Liberty emdorsed candidates were almost all shut out, even in Pennsylvania where they began and flourished.
This bunch of moms did better, thank goodness! Moms Demand Action is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence. https://momsdemandaction.org
That 20% of fringe CONservatives did well in pockets is still pretty scary...
UPDATE #3
The affiliation with the worst of the RW extremists says a lot about this group... and as D Mac norf in the comments, the SPLC has deemed them extremists. Lie down with jackals, awaken with a SPLC label...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d93qd/moms-for-liberty-proud-boys
SPLC tagged them extremist recently.
Banning books seems so 20th century to me. I see the fascism futility. Children access porn sites and they think they will suppress information freedom by banning paper books??
Sam Kinnison said "I didn't even want it until you said I couldn't have it!".
By that theory of porn, Amanda Gormans poetry book reached #1 on Amazon.
Has anyone followed up and evaluated the effectiveness of this futile effort?
Kid 2nd from left in back row, with shades, looks scarily into it. Little dude in front of him looks like “Forgive them, Father; they know not what they do.”
UPDATE #2
Moms for liberty gets tax fee status... Remember when Obama was vilified for "only" going after the GQP tax free exemptions? Well it was because there are so damn many and they are as corrupt and useless as this bunch of yahoo fake "christians! https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3gnq/what-is-moms-for-liberty
Anon missed a site.. https://www.momsforlibertymiami.com/
Follow the money https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/10/the-right-wing-money-and-influence-behind-moms-for-liberty/
SURPRISE! There is an anti-mask, and antivax link along with the Proudboys,
bigotry and school board takeovers...
SURPRISE! There is also a connection to the "wellness" woo
SURPRISE! There is also a connection to Q...
And here she is, Eulalia Maria "Lali" Jimenez MFL of Miami-Dade Chair, pulling all of the conspiracies, religion, Q and self righteous bullshit in a video reminiscent of the videos we usually see on SAV, being passed on by antivaxxer morons...
Karma, we need you!
In this video she says she is American born, of Cuban parents (Says her dad was a political prisoner, so likely thinks that Dems really are communists as these dim bulbs love to misnomer and demonize) and has 6 kids. BTW, none of her children even go to the school where the books are banned, so yes, she likely coerced Daily to sign the forms even though she could not read the books! https://ms-my.facebook.com/IndianRiverNews/videos/moms-for-liberty-miami-dade-chairman-eulalia-mar%C3%ADa-jim%C3%A9nez-hincapie-hispanic-rep/417926086852865/
SURPRISE! Daily Salinas has also been active with "christian" nationalist group CCD AMD CNP (See Steve Bannons fake religious alt-Reich European nationalists)
SURPRISE! All of these same people are connected to the local GOP and campaigns for Rubio and DeathSAntis, Micheal Flynn's "religious" takeover of schoolboards, local government and election overseer positions... to the MAGA movement, January 6 and who knows what else. Follow the money? https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/07/09/just-who-is-behind-moms-for-liberty-column/
(Reminder, Proudboys are moving to Florida and running for Mayor and council in many towns, small and large ... DeSantis says on 'Day One' he pardons Jan. 6 defendants, 110 of which are thus far from Florida)
They podcast to their local communites... and this is happening all over the US.
Florida Proud Boys bring their kids to intimidate local school board member Shirley Brown
Proud Boys showing the world who they really are... in public... butt hey, those drag queens, books and poems are bad! Think of the children...
MAY 26: Ron DeSantis rails against ‘poem hoax’
at homeschool convention
“This poem hoax. And so what this is, this is some book of poems. I never heard of it,” DeSantis said of “The Hill We Climb,”a world famous poem read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. He then proceeded to say that moving books from one district (elementary) to the middle school district libraries was not a ban. Well it sure as hell is for grade 1-6. https://t.co/LGYblYlDED
Burning books is not a ban either. It is moving books from one place to another. /S
I get some leeway for using the Nazi book burning reference. Why? Well...
UPDATE #1
'Miami-Dade met in April to review 5 books: THE ABCs OF BLACK HISTORY, CUBAN KIDS, COUNTRIES IN THE NEWS: CUBA, THE HILL WE CLIMB, and LOVE TO LANGSTON All books were challenged for CRT or “gender theory” by the same person in March 2023.'
A couple of the books were written for ages 5+, so they will be rejected as childish by middle schoolers, grades 6-8, the only children who will be able to access the books in school.
Majority of book ban requests were made by only 11 people: analysis https://www.rawstory.com/book-ban-2660547890/
More on the woman who banned these books
Daily Salinas has admitted she can
barely speak English let alone read it.
'She said she had only read parts of the books. “They have to read for me because I’m not an expert,” she said. “I’m not a reader. I’m not a book person. I’m a mom involved in my children’s education. and 'Salinas’ post about the Protocols included a list of steps depicting how “Jewish Zionists” would achieve world domination. The graphic included stages such as “Place our agents and helpers everywhere,” “Replace royal rule with socialist rule, then communism, then despotism,” and “Sacrifice people (including Jews sometimes) when necessary.” ” https://www.jta.org/2023/05/24/united-states/the-florida-mom-who-got-amanda-gormans-poem-restricted-says-shes-sorry-for-promoting-the-protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion
Daily's husband's name is Alberto Rego and she uses her married name on social media. I wonder which she used to make her complaint? Why do all of these MAGA moron minions use so many aliases?
If anyone is not familiar how schoolbooks are chosen in the USA, you might be surprised to know that a very few people make decisions for all of American schools. Although this story is a little cranky, it was too spot on for some American "patriots" on the right and the left... (Not being American, I tend not to sugar coat and wrap everything in a flag)
American exceptionalism and the light-bulb (OR, get over yourselves dim-bulbs, and read more history) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/9/6/1975445/-American-exceptionalism-and-the-light-bulb-OR-get-over-yourselves-dimbulbs-and-read-more-history I take awhile to get to the point, so for the TLDR crowd,feel free to skip to the last third.
OOOPSIE! Anon took out the site yesterday and still down. https://www.momsforliberty.org/ EDIT: May 26, the site is up but restricting access...
“ History that exalts a nation’s strengths without ever examining its shortcomings, that prefers feeling good rather than thinking hard, that seeks simplistic celebration over a full understanding — well, that’s not history; that’s propaganda.” —Kevin M. Kruse, historian.
Amanda Gorman feels "gutted." As well she should. I hope that she and all of the sane students and parents in FL (there are sane people there) rise up against this hateful act. The brain-dead complainer and the people who bowed to her sick accusations should be pilloried and buggy-whipped.
The complainant who submitted the form has very limited writing skills and makes me wonder whether they were actually capable of reading the material, never mind understanding it.
Outstanding post, ICU!
Cheers to Brooklyn Public Library for their "Books Unbanned" program!
The moron who filled out the complaint form wrote "Is not educational and have indirectly hate messages". Those are the exact words she used! She's obviously illiterate and should not have the power to single-handedly ban a book from schools.