An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.
Already had most of these marked to donate to their eventual primary challenger; welcome to the list, Henry Cuellar.
I mean, makes sense, Hitler is one of Trump’s favorite authors.
No, I am not being hyperbolic.
Trump kept a collection of Hitler’s speechs from the 1930s in his nighstand table, and would read from it before going to bed in the 80s and 90s.
When asked about this,
" ‘Trump hesitated’ and then said, ‘Who told you that?’ "
