Virginia’s new Lieutenant Governor-elect Winsome Sears appeared on CNN to talk about her win, and decided to take that time to educate the lost and clueless host about the realities of critical race theory.
CNN host Dana Bash thought she was going to get away with pushing the leftist lie that critical race theory is not being taught in schools. Little did she know that Winsome Sears came prepared.
During her interview on CNN’s State of the Union, host Dana Bash claimed that critical race theory “is not part of Virginia’s curriculum.”
Winsome Sears shot her down fast.
“I beg to differ that CRT is not taught,” Sears said.
“I didn’t say that. I just said it’s not in the curriculum, just to be clear,” Bash responded quickly, realizing she had been caught.
Sears next statements then proved exactly why Virginians elected her: she’s highly intelligent, quick witted, and she’s not afraid to stand up for what she believes in.
“No, no, no, no, it is part of the curriculum. It’s weaved in and out of the curriculum,” she fired back. “In fact, in 2015, former governor, who was just defeated, [Terry] McAuliffe, his state Board of Education had information how to teach it, so it’s weaved in. So, it’s semantics, but it’s weaved in.”
“What we want to say, and what governor-elect [Glenn] Youngkin has said, is that all of history must be taught, the good, the bad, and the ugly, because what we learn from history, Dana, is that we don’t learn from history and we continue to repeat the same mistakes,” Sears added.
Her razor sharp wit only continued from there. Sears launched into a fiery lesson for the CNN host, stating:
“But while we’re talking about history, how about we talk about how black people from the 1890s to about 1950-1960, according to the U.S. census, had been marrying in a percentage that had far surpassed anything that whites had ever done?
When we talk about the Tulsa race riots, let’s ask ourselves: ‘How did the black people amass so much wealth right after the Civil War, so that it could even be destroyed? How did they do that?’ They were coming from nothing, from zero. Some of them never even got the 40 acres and a mule.
Let’s try to emulate that. The one thing that the slaves wanted— well, three top things, their freedom, certainly. Then the next thing was they wanted to find their families. And the third thing was, they wanted an education. And, my God, when did education become a bad word among black people?
No, we are going to have a good education system. It’s going to represent all people. And I’m going to help see that through because education lifted my father out of poverty when he came to America with only $1.75. Education lifted me, because I have to find my own way in this world. And education will lift all of us.”
In the end, Sears’ response was so powerful that Bash had nothing more to say about the topic. Instead, the CNN moved on to talk about COVID vaccine mandates.
Watch the full segment here:
