Music Icon P!nk Peddles Censorship Narrative in Florida, Gives Away Books Anyone Can Buy
SUNRISE, FLORIDA — P!nk is seeing red as conservatives try to shield children from Left-wing indoctrination efforts in Florida public schools.
The Grammy-winning music artist P!nk announced she is teaming up with PEN America to give away 2,000 copies of four book titles that have been challenged by parents or age-restricted in a handful of Florida’s 4,200 government-run schools. The books will be distributed at the upcoming P!nk concerts in Miami and Sunrise this week.
Three of the titles advance the Left-wing agenda and the fourth contains mature content. The Family Book teaches children to celebrate homosexual couples who adopt children. Girls Who Code encourages girls to pursue a technology-related career path, a vocation they typically do not enjoy or thrive in. “The Hill We Climb” is the spoken-word poem performed at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Beloved, a popular novel about slavery, contains graphic descriptions of sexual encounters.
“Books have held a special joy for me from the time I was a child, and that’s why I am unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned by schools,” P!nk said. “It’s especially hateful to see authorities take aim at books about race and racism and against LGBTQ authors and those of color.”
Kasey Meehan, director of PEN America’s Freedom to Read Program, told the Sun Sentinel that age-restrictions on taxpayer funded library books are “depriving kids of the chance to learn about the world and its history.”
FLORIDA BOOK BANS: A PHONY NARRATIVE
PEN America has been a leading opponent of parents trying to protect their children from hyper-sexualized books in public school libraries.
In May, PEN America and publishing giant Penguin Random House sued Escambia County School District for pulling a book called Two Boys Kissing from elementary school libraries.
Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya claimed that removing books from school libraries represents “a direct threat to democracy and our Constitutional rights.”
“Luckily for them, there are no ‘book bans’ in Florida,” Florida Department of Education (FDOE) spokesman Alex Lanfranconi said at the time.
Despite misleading media narratives implying otherwise, the state of Florida has not restricted the voluntary private exchange of any books. Efforts to remove inappropriate books from school libraries represent taxpayer accountability, not free speech censorship.
While Pink and PEN America chose to hand out books that are not likely to enrage the average parent, the reality is that the majority of books being taken out of school libraries contain either physical abuse or violence, sexual experiences, homosexuality, gender confusion or sexual assault.
Some of those bemoaning the state’s efforts to clamp down on inappropriate library materials and Left-wing indoctrination have gone so far as to defend pornography as necessary sex education.