Texas GOP lawmaker clashes with CNN anchor on critical race theory, slams network's 'slanted view'

A Texas state lawmaker had a heated exchange with CNN anchor Victor Blackwell over critical race theory and even went after the liberal network for its slanted coverage.

"Critical race theory is not about not teaching the egregious things that happened in the past. Critical race theory is about blaming children today in the classroom for things that happened in the [past]. Years ago, we said stereotyping, racial profiling, we said that was the wrong thing, and yet that's what is being taught in our classroom," Toth began before holding up a copy of a children's book called "Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness" that was apparently found at a Texas school. "How about we start talking to kids about what brings us together instead of the things that make us different and separate us?… We need to teach the egregious things in the past while we don't blame this generation for them." Blackwell then challenged part of Toth's bill that reads, "A teacher may not be compelled to discuss a particular current event or widely debated or current controversial issue of public policy or social affairs," pressing the GOP lawmaker on why teachers shouldn't talk about current events like the "insurrection" at the Capitol.