Unreal: Florida elementary schools in Miami-Dade county are taking the book banning to new heights, this time banning the poem that was read at President Biden's inauguration by poet Amanda Gorman.
How were they able to get this done at all, let alone across the entire county?
*One* parent demanded that the poem be taken out of the libraries, saying it was "inappropriate" for students.
In addition to Gorman's poem, the deranged parent who was able to get this done successfully also challenged four additional books: The ABCs of Black History, Cuban Kids, Countries in the News Cuba, and Love to Langston.
She claimed that these books were filled with "indirect hate messages" that were inspired by critical race theory.
The director of research and insight at the Florida Freedom to Read Project responded to this absolute atrocious ruling to ban the poem, and books across the state, saying that the type of books being banned show a concerted effort to target "books that address ethnicities, marginalized communities, racism or our history of racism."
Should *one* parent be able to do this? Should a team of parents be able to do this? Where is the line? Who draws it?
This is insane.
This is a country where apparently people thought that a 1/3lb burger was smaller than a 1/4lb burger, so on that basis of total stupidity, nothing really surpirses me.
If people take offense to this, please see what is going on right now from the viewpoint of people in different countries such as the UK, and think about the fact that the rest of the world thinks this sort of one person able to ban a piece of text is just stupid and pathetic, and therefore the US is equally stupid.
Not all Americans are that stupid. but so long as people sit on the side line and just allow this to happen unchallenged, you will just get more of the same, till at one pivitol moment something will happen that will mean there is no chance of going back to common sense.
For the sake of your country please STOP THIS lunacy.
