DeSantis appears to back woman who led Amanda Gorman poem school ban

Some earlier DU threads:
• The Florida woman who got Amanda Gorman's book banned is a PB loving Xtian Nationalist
• FL mom who tried to ban Amanda Gorman's poem promoted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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Source: The Guardian

DeSantis appears to back woman who led Amanda Gorman poem school ban

Florida governor accuses media of creating ‘ridiculous poem hoax’ after complaint targeted verse recited at Biden inauguration

Richard Luscombe in Miami
@richlusc
Fri 26 May 2023 18.01 BST
Last modified on Fri 26 May 2023 21.31 BST

Ron DeSantis on Friday appeared to defend a woman who got Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem The Hill We Climb removed from a Miami school, even though she has attended events alongside white supremacist and far-right groups.

The Republican Florida governor, who entered the race for his party’s 2024 presidential nomination with a botched launch on Twitter on Wednesday, said parents such as Daily Salinas were saving children from political ideology “the left [is] trying to jam in” to schools.

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Salinas, a parent of two children at the Bob Graham education center in Miami Lakes, who has been photographed attending rallies by the neo-fascist Proud Boys group, admitted she had read only “snippets” of several books she sought to have banned from the campus.

They include the ABCs of Black History, poetry by Langston Hughes and books on Cuba, all of which she has criticized for “indirect hate messages”, references to critical race theory and gender indoctrination.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/26/ron-desantis-amanda-gorman-poem-ban

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