It seems like it would take a lot to make LaVar Burton angry, but last month he was doing an appearance on the view.

And Joy Behar asked him about the push to ban certain books in U.S. schools.

Especially about race, sexuality, and basically American history.

Give us your reaction to that.

He replied with a Barnyard Exploitve. We're not going to play that.

And then he said...

I'll be absolutely candid and honest. It's embarrassing that we are banning books in this country, in this culture, in this day and age.

We have this aversion in this country to knowing about our past.

And anything that is unpleasant, we don't want to deal with.

This is not going away.

And then he gave the kids some advice.

Weave the books they're banning. That's where the good stuff is.

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Haven't we always had book bans? Is this time really that different?

So it's definitely true that America has a long and storied history of book bans.

The Puritans were burning books back in the 17th century.

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