A video of a biracial North Carolina father and a Republican candidate has gone viral after criticizing critical race theory at a school board meeting Monday evening.
Brian Echevarria, a self-proclaimed biracial who’s running for North Carolina General Assembly as a Republican, attacked CRT as a “big fat lie” and a “discrimination revolution” during a school board meeting at Cabarrus County School Board last Feb. 14.
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“I’m biracial, I’m bilingual, I’m multicultural. The fact is, in America, in North Carolina, I can do anything I want and I teach that to my children,” Echevarria said in his speech.
“And the person who tells my pecan-color kids that they’re oppressed, based on the color of their skin, would be absolutely wrong and absolutely at war with me,” he added.
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In his address to the school board, Echevarria said that the CRT and mask debates have shown that ‘parents, the most powerful group in the country, [are] taking back the wheel.’
Echevarria argued that he and other parents do not want CRT taught in classrooms.
‘If you believe in CRT… I want to tell you, you’re a liar. it means you look at your black neighbor and say they’re oppressed and you look at your white neighbor and say they’re evil, regardless of the experience you’ve had with them,’ Echevarria said.
The parent, who also owns a business, said that in his experience, there are ‘hardly’ any racists to be found .
‘The racism is only happening at the government level and on the media,’ Echevarria added.
He concluded by taking an apparent swipe at transgender athletes, saying that he has an eight-year-old daughter and he does not want ‘a man swimming against her in the pool.’
‘This is what we’re talking about: policy going back to the parents,’ he said.
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