<p>&#8220;Reading Rainbow&#8221; star LeVar Burton said he would fight conservative group <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/moms-for-liberty-promises-legal-action-over-splc-hate-and-extremism-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moms for Liberty</a> while hosting the 74th National Book Awards (NBA) ceremony in New York.</p>
<p>The 66-year-old actor on Wednesday used his opening monologue as the NBA host to call out the parental rights group based out of Florida — formed in response to the COVID restrictions in schools — that&#8217;s been labeled an extremist group by the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Southern Poverty Law Center</a> (SPLC), <a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/levar-burton-opens-national-book-175001351.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yahoo.com</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house?&#8221; Burton asked, while the audience laughed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Moms for Liberty?&#8221; he repeated. &#8220;No? Good. Then hands will not need to be thrown tonight.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? No? Good. then hands will not need to be thrown tonight.&#8221;</p>
<p>Host LeVar Burton kicks off this year&#8217;s National Book Awards ceremony. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NBAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NBAwards</a> <a href="https://t.co/tQtLj8azGS">pic.twitter.com/tQtLj8azGS</a></p>
<p>— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) <a href="https://twitter.com/PublishersWkly/status/1724957754589061500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Burton, who hosted the children&#8217;s show &#8220;Reading Rainbow&#8221; on PBS for two decades, also talked about the group during his interview with <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a45825849/levar-burton-book-banning-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Esquire</a>, when he celebrated learning that &#8220;hardly any candidates backed by Moms for Liberty won their races&#8221; during the 2023 election.</p>
<p>&#8220;These are people who would rather children not know the truth,&#8221; Burton told the outlet. &#8220;Those kids will never know what they&#8217;re missing, but it&#8217;s our job to stand up for them, to be their voices and their advocates. That&#8217;s what being an elder in this society means to me.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221; star previously went on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyGqnHMcgdY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The View</a>&#8221; in 2022 to attack groups like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/death-threats-to-moms-for-liberty-ramp-up-after-splc-lumped-them-with-kkk-taliban-in-minivan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moms For Liberty</a> who have spoken out about books that contain <a href="https://www.momsforliberty.org/media/files/pages-page/6d92a117/10questionsparentsshouldask.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexual content</a> in school libraries and certain <a href="https://www.momsforliberty.org/news/-parents-revolted-against-critical-race-theory-heres-how-they-won/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial</a> curricula in schools.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have this aversion in this country to knowing about our past,&#8221; Burton said. &#8220;And anything that is unpleasant, we don&#8217;t want to deal with.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;This is not going away,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Nothing goes away, especially if you ignore it. So, read the books they&#8217;re banning. That&#8217;s where the good stuff is. If they don&#8217;t want you to read it, there&#8217;s a reason why.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the SPLC&#8217;s 2022 annual Year in Hate and Extremism report, it called the group an &#8220;extremist&#8221; coalition of &#8220;far-right antigovernment parents&#8221; known for &#8220;intimidating and harassing teachers and school officials.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moms For Liberty has since promised to sue the (SPLC) for defamation over being labeled an extremist group, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/moms-for-liberty-promises-legal-action-over-splc-hate-and-extremism-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/levar-burton-cancel-culture-is-consequence-culture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LeVar Burton: Cancel Culture Is &#8216;Consequence Culture&#8217;</a></strong></p>

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