North Carolina State House Candidate Unloads on School Board over Critical Race Theory
February 19, 2022 | North Carolina
A candidate for North Carolina’s State House of Representatives blasted the Cabarrus County School Board (CCSB) for its support of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools.
“As a parent, and I speak to other parents, and there’s a few things we don’t want,” Brian Echevarria said at a CCSB meeting Monday. “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. And the person that tells my little pecan-colored kids that they’re somehow oppressed based on the color of their skin would be absolutely wrong and absolutely at war with me.”
Echevarria is running in the State House’s 73rd District.
He told the school board that a previous battle over mask mandates showed parents that they are in control, and that they were not going to hand that control back to the school board just because the mask issue was settled.
“We’re taking the wheel back from Washington, all the way to Raleigh, and to our local school board,” he said. “Because CRT – all of that – the parents don’t want it. It’s a big fat lie. If you believe in CRT I want to tell you – you are a liar.”.. (Excerpt from Virginia Star)
