Los Angeles mom 'targeted' by teachers' union compares them to Taliban: 'This is very familiar to me'

A Los Angeles mother and outspoken proponent of school reopenings claims to have been racially profiled by the local teachers union who asked her to share her ethnicity in an email.

"I was honestly shocked to be targeted like that," Qudrat told host Lawrence Jones. "I myself have been a teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District, and I‘ve been an educator in the public education system. I never expected to have 1,000 indices to prove my last name and figure out my first name, race and profiling me that way by my own fellow colleagues, my teachers," she said. UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said Monday that the state's plan to return to in-person learning is "propagating structural racism." She also claimed that minority communities are being "unfairly targeted by people who are not experiencing this disease in the same ways as students and families are in our communities." In a January Facebook post, Myart-Cruz accused "wealthy white [sic] and Middle Eastern parents" of stalking union members on social media.