Speaker 1: I'm going to play a video for you today that I know many of you will think has
to be fake. It has to be a comedy skit. It has to be satire. It must be from Saturday Night
Live and it's not. I am going to play a clip for you today of a mom interviewed on Fox News
who is suing, suing her son's school because her son will no longer do chores at home
because he's been taught critical race theory. Apparently, her son is half black.
She says in a New York Post article that her son looks Hawaiian. And she says all of a sudden,
because of critical stuff that her son has been taught, he won't do chores around the house
anymore. It is unbelievable. Look at this. Speaker 2: All right. So, Melissa, you're
your son. Is the father's black? You're white. And he never mentioned issues with race before. You're
saying what exactly changed? Speaker 3:
Right. We didn't have issues before. He's in eighth grade. They introduced this critical
program and they. Speaker 1: Introduced the critical program. And
all of a sudden, what happened? Listen to this. Speaker 3: And now he's having
racial issues that wasn't there before. Speaker 2: What kind of racial issues is
he having? Speaker 3:
Well, he's seen himself just as a black man. He's seen things that don't go his way as racism.
And he's finding safety in numbers now. Speaker 1: So he's finding safety in
numbers. I would love to explore that more. Speaker 2: You're saying he gets a bad grade
at school? He blames racism or a girl rejects him on a date? Racism. Are those the kind of
things you're seeing? Speaker 3:
Yes. I asked them to clean the house. Racism? Yes. Speaker 2: You're kidding, right? Are you serious?
Speaker 3: No, I'm serious. They have totally changed his perspective. They have?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Hey, you're supposed to vacuum. That's racist. Mom. Hey, I'm your mom.
It's time to vacuum. I mean, it's. You're suing the school because it's. I can't get.
How is this a real segment? It's very difficult to believe that this isn't a plan.
I actually thought this is going to be another one. You know, when these people prank Fox News
and it turns out that it's actually a complete and total joke, like there was this famous one.
We interviewed the guy, Max Rice, who went on Fox and he pretended that he was a former Obama voter
who didn't who wanted to vote for Romney instead because of some, he lost a bet. It was like this
whole fake thing and later it came out. It was all a joke. I wrongly assumed this was
going to be a joke. And the there's one other one possibility is the mom has completely lost
control of just parenting like she doesn't know how to parent. That's one possibility. The other
possibility is that this is sort of like made up or exaggerated. And she's using her kid as
a political pawn. Like at some point, don't you say, listen, you've just got to do your homework.
You've just got to do your chores. I'm I'm the parent. I'm in charge here. And she goes on
an international news outlet, which I can't imagine is going to make circumstances that
much better for her kid in school as well. That it just strikes me that that's not going to be a
particularly useful thing. And then again, in this New York Post article that was written about this,
you know, New York Post, it's not a source we typically use, but that's where she was.
She was interviewed. Virginia's school. Virginia schools. Anti-Racist program has changed, my son,
Mom says. And she did say he looks Hawaiian. He's beautiful. He didn't used to see himself
as different from other kids. Sure, his skin tone was a little darker. His dad is black
and right. I guess the mom is white and Native American, but she never wanted to box him in
with stifling racial classifications. And now an anti-racist curriculum, she says, is itself racist
because it indoctrinate students and teachers in a racial essentialist worldview. This is really
wacky stuff. If it wasn't so sad and dangerous and disheartening, it would be funny because
it seems like comedy, but it's not. And I would expect a lot more of this over the next few years.