A whistleblower revealed information regarding a Texas state agency that has been forcing “critical race theory indoctrination” among employees, according to Texas gubernatorial candidate Don Huffines.
The anonymous whistleblower, identified only as an employee with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, shared the material with Huffines’s campaign. In a video, Huffines claimed the whistleblower approached them with the goal of fighting critical race theory, a legal theory that espouses the view that systematic racism is part of U.S. society. Republicans have rallied around opposing CRT in schools.
“A whistleblower inside the Texas government came to us to help end critical race theory indoctrination that has been forced on state employees and is being paid for by you, the Texas taxpayer,” Huffines said.
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“An employee with the Department of Family and Protective Services came to us concerned that they were forced to go through a course called ‘Knowing Who You Are,’ and then they had to report to their supervisor that it had been completed,” Huffines said, adding that the agency has “over 13,000 employees.”
The agency required employees that the training was required as a condition of their employment, Huffines said in the video.
After successfully going through the training, the whistleblower was “required to take a quiz,” the candidate added. The quiz required employees to acknowledge that institutional racism and white privilege existed and vow to be “social justice warriors,” Huffines said.
“This employee came to us because, sadly, they don’t trust Texas politicians,” Huffines added. “It’s probably because politicians are the ones who have been funding this exact sort of indoctrination for many years.”
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation into law which aims to ban the teaching of CRT in schools in K-12 public schools and forbids the 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine project that argues the founding of the United States began the year the first slaves were sold to British colonists, rather than 1776, the year the U.S. declared independence.
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Huffines, who previously served as a GOP state senator, announced in May that he was running for governor, challenging Abbott for the position. Huffines has previously slammed Abbott’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the state.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Huffines campaign and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services for comment.
