A Small Group Is Trying to Defund Libraries Over Books On Race and LGBTQ Culture

How an Arkansas county is divided over books they labeled as woke and too explicit

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Last night, a meeting at the Quorum County Court was held on matters to defund the Saline County Libraries due to the reading materials available to children.

The books that were brought to the court’s attention were claimed to be woke and sexually explicit. One of the individuals arguing for defunding the libraries brought the books into question to the meeting.

A list of the books in question can be found below, along with their Amazon links should anyone wish to check them out.

Quorum County Court Meeting

A Quorum County Court is a body of elected officials from each district in the county who simply votes on matters concerning the city and/or county.

The quorum court heard many pleas last night on removing the books in question, moving the books to an area away from their children’s reach, as well as ending public tax money going toward supporting the county libraries.

They said that these woke and explicit books have been entering the library's shelves since 2020 and that they didn’t want to indoctrinate their children on such deviant behavior and that…