A FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks is calling for an investigation into a Minnesota professor appointed to a task force examining “ethnic studies.” In Governor Tim Walz’s Minnesota The Department of Education praises the professor’s previous comments that the United States should be “overthrown” because it is “irreversibly racist.”

“(Brian Lozenski) has stated publicly and on video that he supports the destruction and overthrow of the United States of America because our nation is irredeemably racist and evil. This is a radical and destructive world because of Governor Walz’s recent signature Banks, who ran for Senate last month and received endorsements from former President Trump, wrote in her letter that Minnesota’s education law would be taught to thousands of children across the state.

The letter was first obtained by Fox News Digital and called out the FBI’s interim inspector general, Jennifer Hoppenstedt. Minnesota Department of Educationis to investigate Brian Lozenski, an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College, for comments calling for “insurrection against the United States.” Macalester College, St. It is a private liberal arts school located in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Representative Jim Banks and Governor Tim Walz (Getty Images)

“I urge you to investigate Mr. Lozenski’s history of advocating insurrection against the United States and whether Mr. Lozenski’s radical, anti-American views influenced the Minnesota Ethnic Studies Working Group’s development of the Ethnic Studies framework.” Banks continued his letter.

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Lozenski was appointed by Walz’s state Department of Education to help write a framework of ethnic studies standards for the state. The working group’s framework for ethnic studies will be completed on October 31, and Bank’s letter will be sent to the IG approximately a week before the deadline.

Walz taught high school social studies before starting his political career as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Minnesota in 2006.

Representative Jim Banks speaks at a press conference criticizing the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal process outside the U.S. Capitol on August 24, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital previously reported that a video released by The Solidarity Network on June 19, 2022 showed Lozenski discussing critical race theory research and arguing that the United States is “irreversibly racist” and “must be overthrown.”

“We don’t use critical race theory in school,” Lozenski said. “The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States, as it has been constructed, is irreversibly racist. So, if the nation state, as it has been constructed, is irreversibly racist, then it must be finished. It must be overthrown,” he said. In the 2022 video.

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“We might say, ‘Oh no, critical race theory is just about telling our stories and our diversity,’” she added. “It’s not about that. It’s about overgrowth. It’s rebellious.”

Governor Tim Walz speaks at a voting rally on October 22, 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The video was removed from YouTube last month due to media attention. Walz’s ongoing campaign for vice president He’s on the Democrat ticket.

“You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-US, okay, that’s an anti-state theory that says the US needs to be restructured, period,” he continued in the video.

Fox News Digital, Harris-Walz campaign, Lozenski and Minnesota Department of Education but did not receive an immediate response on Sunday. Banks sent the letter on Friday.

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“Mr. Lozenski is an advocate of critical race theory and an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College. He was apparently selected to be on the working group after his advocacy of Minnesota House Bill 1502, which established the ethnic studies working group, as Banks wrote in his letter: He continued: “St. “I draw from the experience of teaching ethnic studies in St. Paul Public Schools.”

Banks’ letter comes as Harris and Walz make their final pitch to voters in the final leg of the election cycle. (Reuters)

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“He also founded a group called Education for the Emancipation of Minnesota. Supplemental ethnic studies curriculum in Minnesota public schools. “Unsurprisingly, a closer look at Mr. Lozenski’s past statements reveals radical political views that would disqualify him from working in public education and certainly from developing a statewide curriculum.”

Lozenski’s biography claims that he was the author of a book titled “My Liberation Doesn’t Fit Your Equation: Critical Acts of Black Education in the United States” and that he was on the editorial board of a journal called Ethnic Studies Pedagogies.

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The banks’ letter comes like this: Vice President Kamala Harris and Walz They will make their final presentation to voters in the final leg of the election cycle. A national poll published by the Wall Street Journal last week found Trump with a slight lead over Harris, 47% to 45% support.

Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.

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