One commenter laid out a slick plan for pushing back against these “new” standards, begging locals to attend meetings. I would never allow my kid to be exploited this way.” Truly a sin!,” wrote one commenter, while another noted, “Pull your kids, no kids, no money. “Absolutely disgusting that the BOE would subject and pervert our children with such offensive reading.

For Ibrahim and those working with or near her, anti-police messaging and “hate speech toward AA” are reason enough.

Ibrahim encourages her followers, many of whom began following her after she gained national attention for a speech to the school board decrying CRT, to speak up and demand the book be pulled from the list.Īnti-CRT advocates have taken this moment to push their agendas by now targeting individual books like Thomas’, adding a whole new series of reasons why the book is inappropriate for high school students. “This is what they are “ suggesting “ your child read !! Are you going to allow them to teach your kids to hate our police, is this what you really support?! I need you all of you any of you to get up make those calls, write those emails demand these books be pulled, you are paying for these books your child is being abused by an organization who wants to control your children!!!! It also entices violence and murderer citizens and our police,” reads a Facebook post from local anti-anti-racism advocate Tatiana Ibrahim (a pseudonym for Tanya Brahimi). The book is on a ninth grade reading list for the school. Angie Thomas’s award-winning debut The Hate U Giveis one such title under the spotlight by anti-anti-racism activists in Putnam County, New York.

Opponents to Critical Race Theory (CRT) are flooding school and library board meetings, hoping to squash use of titles that explore anti-racism. If fights about masking or not masking during a global pandemic and rise of the COVID-Delta variant weren’t enough, nor were protests against access to inclusive sexual education material, now teachers and librarians have to fight a third front. In most parts of the US, if public schools aren’t back in session, they will be soon.

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