Posted on 10/07/2023 6:24:42 AM PDT by Libloather
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy announced it will be giving an award to the American Library Association (ALA), an organization that has come under fire in recent months after its president declared herself a "Marxist" after being elected to serve in her role.
The ALA will be one of two recipients of the "2023 Barbara Bush National Literacy Honors Award" during the foundation's signature event, the National Celebration of Reading, set to be held in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Oct. 11, according to a release by the foundation.
The ALA's award comes despite the organization receiving backlash in recent months for comments made by ALA President Emily Drabinski, who took to social media shortly after being elected to the role and declared herself a "Marxist lesbian."
"I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary," Drabinski wrote in the post, which has since been deleted. "I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD. I love you mom."
The organization itself has also come under fire, including after reports earlier this year that the ALA was promoting "intersectionality" and various LGBT stories and authors that specifically targeted children and young adults at their Annual Conference and Exhibition in June.
Drabinksi's comments and the ALA's policies under her leadership have sparked a movement in several states, including Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, South Carolina and Wyoming, to cut ties with the ALA. Such efforts were successful in both Texas and Montana, with the library commissions from both states voting earlier this year to end their association with the ALA.
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She needs a free helicopter ride!
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It took me awhile to realize it, but anything connected to the Bush family is trash.
Barbara Bush’s foundation? LOL I thought they were talking about her undergarment.
Bush family destroyed this country
I remember when I got kicked off of FR for criticizing Jesus duh-bya arbusto. Good times. History is not written by those who win the wars, it’s written by those who win the war for the history department.
Along with the Clinton crime cartel, Obeyme, Brandon and Gyorgy Schwartz.
The whole Shrub political family is nothing but a pack of globalist RINO hypocrites.
I never could stand that lady. She always looked like she had a mustache.
It merely continues the evidence of the stupidity of the Bush family. You could say they have always had mental blinders on, preferring to hide themselves from knowledge that would expose their ignorance of the real political world. Their world has been one of a dream world that does not to be disturbed.
TRAITORS ALL!
As soon as he declared a certain death cult, “the religion of peace,” that should’ve been the final red flag that this guy was an absolute phony.
The entire Bush family has grifted off the American taxpayers and used their political connections to do all kind of pump-and-dump stock schemes for decades. It’s well known in Houston how the Bush family shook down all kinds of companies. Many times that “sweet old grey haired lady” was directly involved in such things. I know people who the Bush family used to enrich themselves.
It was to me. And the fact he invited an imam (who chanted death to America a year earlier on video since scrubbed by focks newz) to the 9/11 ceremony three days after the attack. It was clear he had no knowledge of the world, and he had handlers that were either as stupid, or, let’s just say, “tricksters” pulling his strings
Yup. He certainly did nothing once the Demonrats got back control of Congress in 2006 (if anything, he seemed more happy about that), and all but allowed the worst of the worst to be the standard bearer for 2008, but didn’t lift a finger to stop someone with as shady and as execrable a background as Zero from becoming President.
Add to that, had his equally imbecilic brother been the nominee in 2016, he was going to serve as the designated loser for the Butcheress of Benghazi. Had that happened, we’d be in the 6th year of a nuclear winter with Russia.
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