The Legislature's vaunted reverence for children is empty • Florida Phoenix

Florida’s ‘For the Children’ Legislature Has a Perfect Solution for Deported Migrant Laborers

Republished with permission from Florida Phoenix, by Diane Roberts Kids. You never know what will rot their little minds, corrupt their little souls, turn them into porn addicts, or lead them to understand that grown folks lie to them. So sponge-like and blank-brained are Our Youth, that if they read about gays or Latinos or Black people or liberals, they’ll get Ideas. And if they encounter sex in a book, well, they’ll instantly go out and have …

The Legislature's vaunted reverence for children is empty • Florida Phoenix

Children harvesting shade tobacco in Quincy in 1964. (Photo via Florida State Library and Archives)Kids. You never know what will rot their little minds, corrupt their little souls, turn them into porn addicts, or lead them to understand that grown folks lie to them.  So sponge-like and blank-brained are Our Youth, that if they read about gays or Latinos or Black people or liberals, they’ll get Ideas.  And if they encounter sex in a book, well, …