20 Banned Books Trump Doesn’t Want You to Read
After all their lies and complaints about so-called "cancel culture," Republicans are literally trying to erase Black history.
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND — The Trump administration has ordered the school librarian at the US Naval Academy to remove nearly 400 books.
Among the titles, here are 20 of the books Trump doesn’t want Americans to read:
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
Tears We Cannot Stop, by Michael Eric Dyson
Our Time Is Now, by Stacey Abrams.
White Evangelical Racism, by Anthea Butler
Race War, by Gerald Horne
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, by Matthew Delmont
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by historian Carol Anderson, a book I used to teach at Columbia University
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture, by Greg Tate
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, by Eddie Glaude
Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, by my Harvard Law schoolmate Ian Haney López
When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, with an epilogue by my law professor Derrick Bell
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by my law professor Randall Kennedy
The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy, co-authored by my friend Dorian Warren
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by my colleague Heather McGhee
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement, by journalist Wesley Lowery
Police Violence and Race, written by one of their own students here, Midshipman Gavin Jernigan
My Vanishing Country, by my CNN colleague Bakari Sellers
After all their lies about liberal “cancel culture,” Republicans are doing more than cancelling. They’re literally erasing Black history. Or at least they’re trying to do so.
But at the same time, two copies of Adolf Hitler’s racist manifesto Mein Kampf remain on the shelves.
And The Bell Curve, a book that argues that Black people are intellectually inferior to white people, is still here. But a critique of the book, Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined, has been removed.
This is pure unadulterated racism. We’re well past the point of debating if the Trump administration is racist. It is.
As I wrote in a previous book, MAGA world is running a race against time, desperately trying to erase everything I’ve learned about racism in my life and attacking my teachers, friends, and colleagues along the way.
But for all the self-hating Black MAGA puppets and the self-serving rich Black celebrities who co-sign their own oppression for a buck, a pardon, or a tax cut, please stop embarrassing yourselves.
“pure unadulterated racism” is an understatement. If using this list alone, it would encourage critical thinking that they cannot allow us access to. It should clear to all that we are at WAR. Save your books cause this is some Fahrenheit 451 shit.
I'm reading "Stamped" right now, it's very good.