Former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya is making the media rounds weighing in on controversial topics sweeping the country, one being critical race theory. Tafoya appeared on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss her shift from sports to politics.
She also criticized the notion that critical race theory, a decades-old area of academia that analyzes the effect of race on U.S. law, could be incorporated into school curricula.
“It breaks my heart that my kids are being taught that skin color matters. And to me, if you want white people to step up, I was stepping up when I address the school and said, ‘So why are we having these picnics for families of color?’” Tafoya told host Tucker Carlson.
“Why are we separating our kids? If the world is integrated, let’s continue that and and have everyone find out what we all have in common, not just what we have in common with people who look like us.”
Several GOP-led states have recently pushed to ban critical race theory from being taught in schools, though there is a dispute over whether it is present in secondary schooling.
Tafoya revealed this week her retirement from sports reporting to act as co-chair of Kendall Qualls’s Republican gubernatorial bid in Minnesota.
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