Former ESPN anchor Jemele Hill is letting it be known right now how she feels about former NBC sports reporter Michele Tafoya’s views opposing critical race theory.
The incoming CNN host, who once called former President Trump a White supremacist and his supporters racist, took to Twitter late Wednesday to react to Tafoya speaking out against the radical left-wing policy in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
“Imagine leaving a high-profile job over a made-up issue. Does Michele Tafoya even know what CRT is? Does she have kids in school being taught CRT? Can she provide any examples?” Hill wrote.
Tafoya is very critical of critical race theory being taught in schools, citing experiences her children had being separated from Black schoolmates because of “affinity groups.”
“My son’s first best friend was a little African-American boy, she said on ABC’s “The View.” They were inseparable. Get to a certain age they start having what’s called an affinity group, which means you go for lunch and pizza with people who look like you … At kids in school, there is a big, big focus on the color of your skin and my children … Why are we even teaching that the color of the skin matters? Because to me, what matters is your character and your values,” Tafoya said at the time.
Tafoya ended her nearly 30-year career covering sports this week in order to “start giving back” to the country.
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“This has been on my mind. I’ve been waking up every day with a palpable pull at my gut. My middle-ground, … moderate viewpoint is not being represented to the rest of the world. And so rather than, you know, just banging it out on Twitter or Instagram every day – I thought – I’ve got to do something. I have benefited greatly from the American dream, and I feel like for the sake of my kids and because I so love this country, I’ve got to start giving back,” she told Carlson.
As far as Hill goes, she was hired by CNN earlier this month.
