Hours after the Florida governor announced his run for president, LeVar Burton of 'Reading Rainbow' fame issued a stark warning about what's at stake.
“I am shocked to discover that America has such an attachment to ignorance. I thought we were better than this. I really did,” Burton told me, shaking his head in sadness. “Well, we’re not. So we have to deal with it. We have to fight back. And then we have to continue to tell the truth.”A little later, while onstage with my colleague Steve Padilla, Burton brought up Gorman, an Angeleno and the first National Youth Poet Laureate, as an example of both.
Her own book, “The Hill We Climb,” which essentially is the poem she read to an audience of millions at President Biden’s inauguration, was taken away from elementary students in Miami-Dade County after a single parent complained that it was written to “cause confusion and indoctrinate students” and contained “indirect hate messages.”
LeVar Burton reads from his book, “The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm,” at the L.A. Times Book Club on May 24.We’ve braved the belly of the beastIsn’t always justice.Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessedUnsurprisingly, the parent who complained about “The Hill We Climb,” Daily Salinas of Miami Lakes, has a
that praise white supremacists and antisemitism. She also listed Oprah Winfrey as the author instead of Gorman.“I don’t believe the woman read the book she was able to get banned,” Burton quipped.“There’s not been a single book banned in the state of Florida; you can go buy or use whatever book you want,” he insisted on Twitter Spaces, garnering murmurs of agreement from Elon Musk and cadre of other right-wing tech bros.
But this very political targeting of books in schools is about much more than that. It’s about making sure another generation subscribes to a white supremacist worldview by perpetuating ignorance about the lives and experiences of people from long-marginalized communities.and Instagram: “Most of the forbidden works are by authors who have struggled for generations to get on bookshelves. The majority of these censored works are by queer and non-white voices.
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