Video: Biracial NC House candidate blasts school board over CRT
Brian Echevarria tells the board parents are "taking back the wheel"
Brian Echevarria, a parent and candidate for NC House District 73 seat, unleashed on the Cabarrus County School board earlier this week over Critical Race Theory (CRT)
“Parents Have Rights,” is the first issue listed on Eschevarria’s campaign website, and his remarks at the school board drove that point home.
Echevarria began with a thank you to the board for their actions passing a non-discrimination resolution but he almost immediately began calling out the “big fat lie” of CRT.
“As a parent, I speak to other parents,” he told the board members, “And there’s a few things we don’t want.”
“I’m biracial, I’m multilingual, I’m multicultural. The fact is in America and North Carolina, I can do anything I want — and I teach that to my children,” Echevarria said forcefully. “And the person who tells my little pecan-color kids that they’re somehow oppressed based on the color of their skin would be absolutely wrong and absolutely at war with me.”
Echevarria closed out his remarks with a parting shot, stating that “What the masks showed us is the parents, the most powerful group in the country, are taking back the wheel.”
The video of Echevarria was posted to Facebook on Feb. 16 by the N.C. State Superintendent Catherine Truitt. As of the publishing of this article, the video has been viewed on her Facebook page nearly 600,000 times.
“Amazing speech delivered by a parent at the Cabarrus County Schools Board meeting this week,” Truitt wrote in the post.
The video was also tweeted out by the parent group Moms for Liberty.
The full clip can also be viewed here: