<p>A book for fifth-graders now at New York City Public School libraries glorifies leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), mocks Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and stars a &#8220;queer&#8221; black child named Demetrius who feels &#8220;shame&#8221; in church, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/21/this-controversial-book-talks-about-aoc-instead-of-abcs/">New York Post reported</a>.</p>
<p>“What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood” was written and illustrated by Anastasia Higginbotham and is listed on a reading list for the city school system&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Mosaic&#8221; curriculum. In it, Demetrius tries to find a friend “who’s queer like me,” and his &#8220;spirit&#8221; meets Jesus in a Catholic church.</p>
<p>“Churches can preach all they want about love,&#8221; the boy says. &#8220;The only thing that I feel when I’m here is shame.”</p>
<p>When Jesus tells him “everyone is invited to love and be loved,” the boy points to a man who Higginbotham confirmed was meant to be McConnell and says, “Even — ?” Jesus replies “Yes.”</p>
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<p><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/21/this-controversial-book-talks-about-aoc-instead-of-abcs/">The Post</a>, which reviewed a copy of the book, reported that it states, “We will rewrite the rules we live by and love the world into balance,” with a picture of Demetrius and his parents watching AOC and fellow &#8220;Squad&#8221; members Representatives Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on television.</p>
<p>The blurb for the book on Amazon says it &#8220;<span class="a-text-bold">delves into queerness, Blackness, and the love that dismantles whiteness.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>One Staten Island mom said she thought the book was anti-Catholic and that, with its mix of religion and politics, “has no place in the classroom.”</p>
<p>“It’s a horrible book,” a Staten Island mom <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/21/this-controversial-book-talks-about-aoc-instead-of-abcs/">told the Post</a>. She said the principal at her child&#8217;s school refused to distribute it.</p>
<p>Higginbotham is the author of other children&#8217;s books, including &#8220;Death Is Stupid,&#8221; &#8220;Tell Me About Sex, Grandma,&#8221; and &#8220;Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness.&#8221; The latter is about a child who “connects to the opportunity and their responsibility to dismantle white supremacy.”</p>
<p>Among other books listed in the Mosaic curriculum were “The Bell Rang,” which attempts to explain slavery to kindergartners; “I’m Not a Girl,” which is for first-graders and discusses being transgender; and &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/07/kids-book-our-skin-in-nyc-schools-blames-racism-on-whites/">Our Skin</a>,&#8221; which is for kids as young as two, and blames the idea of race and racism on white people, the Post reported.</p>
<p>Reached for comment by the Post, Higginbotham lashed out at her critics.</p>
<p>“I never expected people who cling to the oppressive, dying institutions of patriarchy and white supremacy to like that book,” she said.</p>

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