The mother who forced a Florida elementary school to ban Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem has attended far-right Proud Boys rallies, it has been revealed.
Daily Salinas complained that The Hill We Climb contained “hate messages” and that it had been placed on a restricted list by The Bob Graham Education Center in Miami.
Salinas’ social media content shows that the mother-of-two has attended events with the Proud Boys and even posed with their leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of his involvement in the January 6 riot.
She has also posted a range of far-right and conspiratorial content on her social media profiles.
Salinas also complained about The ABCs of Black History, Cuban Kids, and Love to Langston, prompting the school to ban them for elementary kids.
Defending her actions against the Miami announces, Salinas said she is “not in favor of removing or censoring books.” but wants the material to be appropriate for students and for them to “know the truth” about Cuba.
Salinas is pictured next to former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio
School libraries are designed “to support the school’s curriculum and I don’t see how these books support the curriculum,” she said.
In November 2022, the avid DeSantis fan attended a Proud Boys rally in support of far-right extremist Christoper Monzon, who participated in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Salinas is pictured on her social media wearing a Ron DeSantis t-shirt and hat at the event.
Just a month earlier, she took part in a meeting outside the offices of the Miami-Dade School Board with the “Christian nationalist” group Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF), which is linked to Turning Point USA and Alliance Defending Freedom, the right-wing group outside countless anti-LGBT bills in the US
Salinas also attended a protest against masks at schools in Miami-Dade in August 2021, where she was photographed alongside Enrique Tarrio.
Salinas was part of a Moms for Liberty intervention at a school board meeting in July 2022, protesting the use of two sex education textbooks.
She was removed from the event by security, but the board later voted 5-4 to remove the books.
Salinas has posted a stream of right-wing content on her social media profiles.
In March of this year, she shared a Facebook post with a series of anti-Semitic tropes about an alleged Jewish conspiracy to control the world, titled “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”
The suit against The Hill We Climb was filed by far-right activist Daily Salinas
The poem was written by Amanda Gorman and read at President Biden’s inauguration
Salinas’ Facebook posts, curated by Miami Against Fascism, show a stream of right-wing and conspiratorial content
Salinas campaigned for DeSantis-backed candidate Roberto Alfonso, who won a seat on the Miami Dade school board in August 2022
Salinas has been an active campaigner with the Christian nationalist group Citizens Defending Freedom
Salinas said the poem she objected to was “not educational and indirectly contains hate messages”
The Hill We Climb was removed from primary school students after the single complaint.
In response to a question on the official form about whether the complainant was aware of professional reviews, Salinas wrote, “I don’t need it.”
She also said that, in her view, the aim of the poem was to “cause confusion and indoctrinate students.”
Gorman wrote on Facebook that she was “devastated” that her poem had been removed.
“Depriving children of the opportunity to find their voice in literature is a violation of their right to freedom of thought and expression,” she wrote.
Adding that she wrote the poem so that “all young people can see themselves in a historic moment,” and that she has received numerous letters and videos from children who were inspired to write their own poems.
News of the library restriction came a week after publisher Penguin Random House and writers’ group PEN America filed a lawsuit against a Florida school district for removing books from public school libraries that related to race and LGBTQ issues.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Salinas for comment.