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FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks is demanding an investigation be opened right into a Minnesota professor who was appointed to a working group analyzing “ethnic research” inside Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota Division of Training, excoriating the professor’s earlier feedback that the U.S. be “overthrown” as a result of it’s “irreversibly racist.”
“[Brian Lozenski] has clearly defined, publicly and on video, that he helps the deconstruction and overthrow of the USA as a result of our nation is irredeemably racist and evil. This can be a radical and damaging worldview, that, due to Governor Walz’s current signing of Minnesota’s training legislation, can be taught to hundreds of kids throughout your state,” Banks, who’s working for the Senate and secured an endorsement from former President Trump final month, wrote in his letter.
The letter was first obtained by Fox Information Digital and calls on Jennifer Hoppenstedt, interim inspector basic of the Minnesota Division of Training, to analyze Brian Lozenski, affiliate professor of city and multicultural training at Macalester Faculty, over feedback calling for an “rebellion towards the USA.” Macalester Faculty is a non-public liberal arts faculty in St. Paul, Minnesota.
WALZ STATE EDUCATION APPOINTEE CALLED FOR THE US TO BE ‘OVERTHROWN’ AND ‘DECONSTRUCTED’
Rep. Jim Banks and Gov. Tim Walz (Getty Photos)
“I’m calling on you to analyze Mr. Lozenski’s historical past of advocating for rebellion towards the USA, and to analyze whether or not Mr. Lozenski’s radical, anti-America views influenced the Minnesota’s Ethnic Research Working Group improvement of its Ethnic Research framework,” Banks continued in his letter.
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Lozenski was appointed by Walz’s state Division of Training to assist write the framework of ethnic research requirements for the state. The working group’s framework for ethnic research is about to wrap up on Oct. 31, with Banks’ letter despatched to the IG roughly per week earlier than the deadline.
Walz taught highschool social research earlier than launching his political profession as a U.S. Home member representing Minnesota in 2006.
Rep. Jim Banks speaks throughout a information convention to criticize the Biden administration’s dealing with of the withdrawal from Afghanistan exterior the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 24, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos)
Fox Information Digital beforehand reported {that a} video printed on June 19, 2022, by The Solidarity Community, confirmed Lozenski discussing his important race idea analysis, and arguing that the U.S. is “irreversibly racist” and “should be overthrown.”
“We don’t use important race idea at school,” Lozenski mentioned. “The primary tenet of important race idea is that the USA, as constructed, is irreversibly racist. So, if the nation state, as constructed, is irreversibly racist, then it should be carried out with. It should be overthrown,” he mentioned within the 2022 video.
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“We will be like, ‘Oh no, important race idea is nearly telling our tales and variety,’” he added. “It’s not about that. It’s about overgrowth. It’s rebel.”
Gov. Tim Walz speaks at a get-out-the-vote rally on Oct. 22, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Photos)
The video was faraway from YouTube final month because it gained media consideration amid Walz’s ongoing marketing campaign for the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket.
“You’ll be able to’t be a important race theorist and be pro-U.S. OK, it’s an anti-state idea that claims the USA must be deconstructed, interval,” he continued within the video.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Harris-Walz marketing campaign, Lozenski, and the Minnesota Division of Training however didn’t instantly obtain replies on Sunday. Banks despatched the letter on Friday.
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“Mr. Lozenski is a important race idea advocate and affiliate professor of city and multicultural training at Macalester Faculty. He apparently was chosen to take a seat on the working group following his advocacy for Minnesota Home invoice 1502, which established the ethnic research working group, due to his expertise instructing ethnic research in St. Paul Public Faculties,” Banks continued in his letter.
Banks’ letter comes as Harris and Walz make their remaining pitch to voters within the remaining leg of the election cycle. (Reuters)
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“He additionally based a bunch referred to as Training for Liberation Minnesota, which advocates for added ethnic research curriculum in Minnesota public colleges. Unsurprisingly, a more in-depth take a look at Mr. Lozenski’s previous statements reveals radical political opinions that ought to disqualify him from working in public training and definitely from creating a statewide curriculum.”
Lozenski’s biography touts that he’s the writer of a e-book titled “My Emancipation Don’t Match Your Equation: Essential Enactments of Black Training within the US,” and sits on the editorial board of a journal referred to as Ethnic Research Pedagogies.
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Banks’ letter comes as Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz make their remaining pitch to voters within the remaining leg of the election cycle. A nationwide ballot printed by the Wall Avenue Journal final week discovered Trump has a slight edge over Harris, at 47% help to 45%.
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
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