Virginia mom who survived Maoist China eviscerates school board's critical race theory push

A Virginia mom who endured Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial critical race theory.

She likened CRT, which critics deride as a form of "neo-racism," to China’s Cultural Revolution, a Mao-led purge that left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead from 1966 to 1976. The estimates vary greatly and many details have been shrouded in secrecy for decades. To me, and to a lot of Chinese, it is heartbreaking that we escaped communism and now we experience communism here. I just want Americans to know that their privilege is to be here living in America, that is just the biggest privilege. One of the teachers was considered bourgeoisie because she liked to wear pretty clothes. So the students attacked her and spit on her. Van Fleet, whose son graduated from Loudoun High School in 2015, shared some of her experience growing up in China’s Sichuan province with Fox News exclusively Wednesday evening.