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:

1. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

2. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi

3. Tears We Cannot Stop, by Michael Eric Dyson

4. Our Time Is Now, by Stacey Abrams.

5. White Evangelical Racism, by Anthea Butler

6. Race War, by Gerald Horne

7. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, by Matthew Delmont

8. So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

9. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by historian Carol Anderson, a book I used to teach at Columbia University

10. Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture, by Greg Tate

11. Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, by Eddie Glaude

12. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, by my Harvard Law schoolmate Ian Haney López

13. When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, with an epilogue by my law professor Derrick Bell

14. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, by my law professor Randall Kennedy

15. The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy, co-authored by my friend Dorian Warren

16. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, by my colleague Heather McGhee

17. Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?, by Mumia Abu-Jamal

18. They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement, by journalist Wesley Lowery

19. Police Violence and Race, written by one of their own students here, Midshipman Gavin Jernigan

20. 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.