Senior Washington Correspondent Tara Mergener Reports on Loudoun School Board Recall
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- Tara Mergener is joining us now.
Tara, you know, this is Virginia.
Where do these people come from?
What planet are they from?
- Well, if you're talkingabout the groups of people
who oppose critical race theory,
they are people from Loudoun County.
The school board members are members also
of the Loudoun County community.
Over the years, there'sbeen a lot of influx
into this traditionally conservative area
of people coming from other states
moving into this more rural area,
and over the years,
it's become less conservativeand more liberal,
and a lot of the criticssay what's happening here
is a result of newer peoplecoming into the community
and going againsttraditional family values
trying to impose theirs onthose who are already there.
- Tara, there's a recallpetition going out.
This, what the school board is doing,
is absolutely outrageous.
Do you think they will be recalled?
- It's possible.
As you look at the numbersof people at these rallies
against critical race theoriesand other things going on
in the school system being proposed
and trying to be implementedby the school board,
the numbers are growing.
So right now, I am told they've collected,
Fight For Schools, that's apolitical action committee
that's organized this effort,
has collected about 10,000 signatures.
About a month ago, there were 2,500.
And how it works is that for every,
of the six school board members
that they want to recall and unseat,
they've gotta get a certainpercentage of the people
that voted in the last election.
So they are getting a lot of signatures
and a lotta people signingon to volunteer also
to collect these signatures.
The problem is that in Virginia
it's really tough to recallofficers of any kind.
So since 2010, there havebeen 19 or so recall efforts
and only one person has been unseated.
But the other thing, too,is the judge that they get
can dismiss this forinsufficient evidence.
So even if they get the signatures
and there's a lotta support behind it,
a judge can essentially dismiss the case.
Hard to tell.
- This critical race theoryis bad news for the Democrats.
How do you think theRepublicans are gonna play it
in the election?
- Well, certainly, they areseeing this movement against it.
So their goal right now
is to capture this national movement.
Donald Trump is among them.
There's a big effort rightnow to collect money.
People are signing on to get the word out
about what critical racetheory is all about,
according to Republicans and critics.
And so the Trump administration,now the Republicans
are seeing a bigopportunity potentially here
for the midterms and 2024
and get other people
behind getting rid ofcritical race theory,
preventing it in schoolsand in the community.
- Tara, you did a terrific job.
Thank you so much.
Tara Mergener, ladies and gentlemen.
And in my, you know, whatis critical race theory?
We did a whole piece on that
and had a brilliantAfrican-American professor
from Vanderbilt Universitygive us the story.
What is it?
That the people of colorhave been oppressed
by the white people
and that the whitepeople begin to be racist
by the time they're twoor three months old,
and they, therefore, thepeople of color have to rise up
and overtake their oppressors.
And then, having gotten the whip handle,
if I can use that term,
then to instruct their whiteneighbors how to behave.
Now that's critical race theory,
and it sets people against,one group against another.
It is totally divisive,
and this has been said,
this is the way the Communists take over.
They try to destroy the children.
It is a monstrous evil.
And you hear it,
it sounds like, oh, criticalrace theory, that's okay.
No, it's not.
It doesn't want to have your children
in the third gradeindoctrinated into a hate group
so that he will wind up hatingpeople or hating himself.
And so the white peopleare supposed to feel guilty
and they're supposed to have white guilt,
and the people of color
are supposed to cleanse themof that guilt by taking over.
It is a monstrous evil.
And to see what's happeningin Loudoun County,
it's not just that,
then they're putting intothe curriculum pornography.
They're making these peopleread pornographic texts
when they're just little kids.
I mean, it's awful.
So I wish those folks inLoudoun County success,
but realize, this is amovement across the nation
because the schools arebeing used all across America
to indoctrinate yourchildren at your expense.