Adrienne Martin finally had enough of extremists in her deep-red community *Twitter clip*

[In It to Win It]

David Heath
@davidhth

Adrienne Martin finally had enough of extremists in her deep-red community trying to get books banned and to inject religion into her child’s school. Listen to her kick-ass speech before the Granbury Texas school board. It’s going viral for a reason. @MrsAMartini

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. K&R

[CrispyQ]

2. Awesome! -nt

[Initech]

3. Oh believe me, I'm sick of this shit too!

I don't even have kids, and I was absolutely livid when the kids across the street from me said that the school board had banned like half the books they're required to read. My blood started boiling and I instantly knew who was responsible for this shit.

[blue neen]

4. "Our schools are not your church".

Excellent words, Adrienne. I salute you!

[3Hotdogs]

14. Great T-shirt logo.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Excellent! She is so right.

Moms for Liberty are not for Liberty. They’re for shoving their religious beliefs down kids throats and depriving them of decent educations in the process. They should be labeled a hate group.

Some of them may even be mothers, but underneath that warm, fuzzy veneer that the word mom conjures up for most people is nothing but hatefulness toward anyone who is not white and not heterosexual. Groups like Moms for Liberty have used their position as the rightful ones to be concerned about children as the cover for pushing truly heinous policies into law. The Guardian has an excellent article today that gives a bit of history.

“The specific aims pushed by Moms for Liberty reflect a more troubling thread from the history of rightwing mothers’ activism. Scholars such as Elizabeth Gillespie McRae have detailed how white mothers’ organizations were some of the most committed players in the mid-century project of “massive resistance” fought to preserve the Jim Crow order. This segregationist battle was particularly concerned with legal mandates for school desegregation. And one of its battlegrounds remains central to the mission of Moms for Liberty: textbooks and school curricula. In the south and beyond, mothers’ organizations fought to eliminate books and teachings that highlighted white violence or white supremacy. Furthermore, they routinely attempted to remove books from the curriculum that highlighted Black contributions to the nation, its history, or its culture.

The challenges posed by Moms for Liberty, then, exceed its disruptive brand of activism, its ties to far-right organizations, or the campaigns of harassment its members have allegedly waged against school boards or rival parent groups. More broadly, the group’s mission resonates with an established history of rightwing mothers’ movements that focused on schools in order to block movements for social equality and to preserve structures of white supremacy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/06/moms-for-liberty-long-history-rightwing-activism

[Martin68]

6. Most excellent!

[SunSeeker]

7. K & R & Retweeted!

[moonshinegnomie]

8. retweeted reskeeted re facebooked. re every place i can think of

[liberalla]

9. That was fantastic! Way to go Adrienne! I applaud her big time!

I would love to know how that was received in the room. She glanced back over her left shoulder, as though the message was directed to some specific people hung up on the religious stuff.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. good on her. i am christian , but i love her. render what belongs to god

and render what belongs to ceaser .

[calimary]

11. Exactly!

[Mysterian]

12. Brava! Brava!

Well done, Adrienne!

[flying rabbit]

13. ...

[malaise]

15. Go tell your pastor

Our schools are not your church.

They really are the American Taliban

[DFW]

16. Good for her!!!!

Saying out loud what so many hesitate to say for fear of some very real retaliation.

[Pepsidog]

17. "Moms for Liberty" aka "Taliban Moms".

[yeratowl]

21. these racist mfl dirtbags remind me of...

the white socialite bitches in kathryn stockett's novel the help

[Bourgeois Liberal]

22. Minivan Taliban

Also known as Mary Kay-Kay-Kay.

[uponit7771]

23. +1

[The Jungle 1]

18. When I got to my late 20s I started to read a lot.

I also became very cynical when I realized my education did not teach me American history.

[Timeflyer]

19. That's great, she's great. So glad people are standing up and fighting back!

[yeratowl]

20. if i believed in god...

i would thank it for sane, brave, reasonable people like adrienne martin

[Kath2]

24. Well done,Adrienne!

Thank you for speaking out!