{"id":1412429,"date":"2022-03-31T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412429"},"modified":"2022-03-31T09:59:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:59:49","slug":"self-own-california-gov-gavin-newsom-poses-with-to-kill-a-mockingbird-banned-by-district-in-own-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-own-california-gov-gavin-newsom-poses-with-to-kill-a-mockingbird-banned-by-district-in-own-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-own: California Gov. Gavin Newsom Poses with &#039;To Kill a Mockingbird,&#039; Banned by District in Own State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fself-own-california-gov-gavin-newsom-poses-with-to-kill-a-mockingbird-banned-by-district-in-own-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom tried and failed Wednesday to mock states that have removed sexual books from curricula by posing with a stack of books that included\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, which has been banned by a district in his own state.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reading some banned books to figure out what these states are so afraid of. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z6eJ01NZJe\">pic.twitter.com\/z6eJ01NZJe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1509340205349847045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Newsom makes a habit of attacking Republican-run states over social issues. Recently, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/15\/newsom-vs-desantis-as-california-gov-woos-disney-over-gay-instruction-bill\/\">asked<\/a> Disney to move jobs back to California over Florida\u2019s bill restricting instruction on sexuality in early grades, falsely calling it the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the staged photo, he appeared reading Toni Morrison\u2019s novel\u00a0<em>Beloved<\/em>, and with other books in a stack: Art Spiegelman\u2019s\u00a0<em>Maus<\/em>, George Orwell\u2019s\u00a0<em>1984<\/em>, and Harper Lee\u2019s\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, a classic tale about the struggle for racial equality.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from mockery online by those who were incredulous that he had not read most of the books already, since several are common in school curricula, some pointed out that Newsom was mocking other states despite California\u2019s own examples of censorship.<\/p>\n<p><em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em> was recently banned, at least temporarily, by schools in Burbank, California, among other classic books, over concerns about \u201cracism\u201d and the use of racial slurs in the text. As\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\">reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Middle and high school English teachers in the Burbank Unified School District received the news during a virtual meeting on September 9.<\/p>\n<p>Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee\u2019s <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, Mark Twain\u2019s <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, John Steinbeck\u2019s <em>Of Mice and Men<\/em>, Theodore Taylor\u2019s <em>The Cay<\/em> and Mildred D. Taylor\u2019s <em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Four parents, three of whom are Black, challenged the classic novels for alleged potential harm to the district\u2019s roughly 400 Black students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, a professor at the University of California Berkeley recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/ct-opinion-left-cancel-culture-books-hanson-20201204-jib62lsznvh3zfo2vvcidilblm-story.html\">attacked<\/a> Abigail Shrier\u2019s expos\u00e9 of transgenderism in schools and its effect on teenage girls,\u00a0<em>Irreversible Damage<\/em>, saying that it should not only be banned, but actually burned.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. 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