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.”
He continued:
“Because that means you look at your black neighbor and say that they’re oppressed. And you look at your white neighbor and say that they’re evil. Regardless of the experience that you’ve had with them. And we’re not going to do that.
The parents in the United States of America right here in North Carolina, in Cabarrus County, we know that’s not true because we believe the lives we live. The fact is I’ve been a business owner right here in North Carolina and I deal with white people, black people, Hispanic people. My children deal with everybody and the racism is only happening at the government level and on the media. The fact is, you have ‘racists’ – and there’s like – you can’t even find them hardly. You just hear the stories about them. But this is what we’re dealing with.
Echevarria also made his stance on transgender athletics, an emerging trend, very clear. He said he did not want his daughter competing against biological males.
That subject has been in the news as Lia Thomas, a biologically male swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, has been winning competitions against biologically female competitors for months.
“I have an 8-year-old daughter who is absolutely dynamic, who can do anything athletically, intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, she is a dynamo,” he said. “And I don’t want a man swimming against her in the pool. The fact is, I don’t want her playing against boys in soccer. I don’t even let my sons rough her up. Do you think I’m going to let your son rough her up?”
He ended by conveying the power and willingness of parents to fight for their children.
“If you think people who love America aren’t willing to fight for it, you haven’t met parents yet,” he said. “Because parents will go further down any street than anyone who loves their country alone.”
Echevarria did not return a comment request.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “Brian Echevarria” by Cabarrus County Schools.
