{"id":1412649,"date":"2022-03-31T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412649"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:14:44","slug":"gov-newsom-steps-on-rake-while-attempting-to-mock-certain-states-over-banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-newsom-steps-on-rake-while-attempting-to-mock-certain-states-over-banned-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Newsom Steps on Rake While Attempting to Mock Certain States Over \u201cBanned Books\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fgov-newsom-steps-on-rake-while-attempting-to-mock-certain-states-over-banned-books%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=1412649&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<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom had an epic fail on Wednesday when he posted a photo to Twitter which featured him reading iconic novels that have been &#8220;banned&#8221; by certain states and countries for being &#8220;controversial.&#8221; However, in the photo Newsom posted included <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, an iconic novel that has been banned in Burbank, California under his tenure.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Reading some banned books to figure out what these states are so afraid of,&#8221; Newsom said on Twitter, attempting to mock certain states.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\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><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>In the photo posted to Twitter, Newsom is sitting at a table next to an empty plate reading the novel <em>Beloved <\/em>by Toni Morrison. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is based on the true story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved African-American woman who killed her child to spare them a life of slavery and has been banned and challenged in five US schools over the book&#8217;s graphic mention of bestiality, rape, sex, and racism.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strange take, Gavin. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lUDowvDlx9\">https:\/\/t.co\/lUDowvDlx9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yYdzackkS9\">pic.twitter.com\/yYdzackkS9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeremyRedfernFL\/status\/1509346668596056066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Ironically, in 2020, during Newsom&#8217;s tenure, <em>The Bluest Eye<\/em> by Morrison was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/2020\/02\/11\/colton-school-district-removes-the-bluest-eye-from-classroom-reading-list\/\">removed from the Colton<\/a>, California, Joint Unified School District\u2019s English curriculum before being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/10\/07\/toni-morrison-book-ban-lifted-by-colton-school-board\/amp\/\">reinstated later the same year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Sitting on the table next to Newsom are the novels <em>To Kill a Mockingbird <\/em>by Harper Lee, <em>1984<\/em> by George Orwell, and two others that are obscured in the photo\u2013all of which have received similar bans to <em>Beloved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wasn&#8217;t &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8221; banned from CALIFORNIA schools? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VVcSroHuAE\">https:\/\/t.co\/VVcSroHuAE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehoffather\/status\/1509413508978380805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>In September of 2020, the Burbank Unified School District in California voted to ban<em> To Kill a Mockingbird <\/em>in middle schools and high schools after parents raised concerns about racism, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned-california-schools-over-racism-concerns-1547241\">Newsweek<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s a good baseline to not elect a governor who hasn\u2019t read 1984 and puts it third on his \u201creading\u201d list for a photo op. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CR8t6DSPer\">https:\/\/t.co\/CR8t6DSPer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JennaEllisEsq\/status\/1509374995469942786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>The California school district also banned Mark Twain&#8217;s <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, John Steinbeck&#8217;s <em>Of Mice and Men<\/em>, Theodore Taylor&#8217;s <em>The Cay<\/em> and Mildred D. Taylor&#8217;s <em>Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\">\n<p>Sparing no time after catching wind of Governor Newsom&#8217;s hypocrisy, political commentators and officials took to Twitter to slam his mistake.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-5e19d842=\"\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom had an epic fail on Wednesday when he posted a photo to Twitter which featured him reading iconic novels that have been &#8220;banned&#8221; by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}