{"id":1454441,"date":"2022-04-26T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454441"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T19:14:40","slug":"texas-library-association-conference-features-a-drag-queen-and-ibram-kendi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-library-association-conference-features-a-drag-queen-and-ibram-kendi\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Library Association Conference Features A Drag Queen And Ibram Kendi"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-library-association-conference-features-a-drag-queen-and-ibram-kendi%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1209449365-alyssa-edwards.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A conference of librarians in Texas this week featured a lineup of drag queens, a speech from Critical Race Theory (CRT) firebrand Ibram X. Kendi and evangelizing about veganism in what one parent advocate called a \u201chuge F-you to parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker at the\u00a0Texas Library Association\u2019s \u201cAfter Hours\u201d session in Fort Worth was Alyssa Edwards, also known as Justin Johnson, who the program described as a drag performer and television personality. Edwards\u2019s speech was followed by\u00a0\u201cDrag Queen Storytime,\u201d featuring self-styled drag queen where Miss Jenna Skyy reading to the attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they rely on is the fact that librarians have one of the highest goodwill ratings of any profession, so they use it to get away with a lot, because no one suspects that a librarian would groom their children,\u201d Dan Kleinman, a parent advocate who runs the group SafeLibraries, told The Daily Wire.\u00a0\u201cThis is a direct screw-you to all the legislators down there,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a huge F-you to parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parent groups around the nation have raised objections to the \u201cDrag Queen Story Hour\u201d trend, in which public libraries host men dressed as women to read stories to young children. In 2019, the Houston Public Library was rocked by a scandal when it was revealed that a drag queen it brought in to read to kids had been convicted of sexually assaulting an 8 year old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/houston-public-library-admits-registered-child-sex-offender-read-to-kids-in-drag-queen-storytime\/285-becf3a0d-56c5-4f3c-96df-add07bbd002a\">KHOU<\/a> reported. The library admitted it did not conduct a background check on the drag queen, in violation of its own guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/txla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/TLA2022-FinalProgramUpdate_April.pdf\">schedule<\/a> for this year\u2019s statewide conference, held Monday and Tuesday revealed an agenda seemingly at odds with the red state\u2019s majority views on CRT and gender ideology. Much of the two-day program had little to do with providing books to citizens, but rather pushing fringe leftist ideology, including one session on turning libraries into \u201cVeganbraries,\u201d which would use libraries to push the vegan lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>The conference also featured a speech from critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi and one from\u00a0Jerry Hawkins, the executive director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing, &#038; Transformation, an initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a major pusher of radical race theory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Indescribably jelly my mom <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TXKateLibrarian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TXKateLibrarian<\/a> is at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/txla22?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#txla22<\/a> for keynote from THE ICONIC <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlyssaEdwards_1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlyssaEdwards_1<\/a> \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\udc51\ud83d\udc8b I wanna hear all abt how libraries converge w back rolls, how orange you look + Alyssa&#8217;s secret <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UOceTuHyK2\">pic.twitter.com\/UOceTuHyK2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rebecca Oxley \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@LibrariansFTW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibrariansFTW\/status\/1518757251976159233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month, the American Library Association chose a self-described <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/marxist-elected-to-head-american-library-association?utm_campaign=64470\">\u201cMarxist lesbian\u201d<\/a> as its president-elect. Her platform seemed to have little to do with literature, saying \u201cSo many of us find ourselves at the ends of our worlds. The consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, class war, white supremacy, and imperialism have led us here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-cmdiie e1ttcx5v0\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/american-library-association-transgender-gender-queer-comics-schools\">American Library Association Pushing Shockingly Obscene Comics On Schoolkids<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/utm.io\/ueuP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conference of librarians in Texas this week featured a lineup of drag queens, a speech from Critical Race Theory (CRT) firebrand Ibram X. 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