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A Kentucky Democrat went viral this week after admitting she felt guilty about her skin color in a speech defending diversity, equity and inclusion<\/a> programs in public schools.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to be honest,” state Rep. Sarah Stalker said during a meeting of the Kentucky General Assembly’s Interim Joint Committee on Education Tuesday. “I don’t feel good about being White every day, for a lot of reasons.”<\/p>\n

Stalker was responding to comments from Republican State Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield, who presented a draft of a bill to end DEI programs in K-12 schools in Kentucky, according to the Kentucky Lantern<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In her remarks, Stalker said being White was a “point of privilege” that gives her opportunities that many of her colleagues, friends, family members and community don’t get to experience. She said removing DEI programs from schools would deny White students the “opportunity” to expose them to their own “privilege.”<\/p>\n

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“If I was a\u00a0White man, I would be functioning from a point of even greater privilege,” she continued<\/a>. “I\u00a0think we’re missing an opportunity. When kids have a moment to reflect about how the color of their skin does and\u00a0does not allow them to move through the world \u2014 running to them and trying to\u00a0stifle that and trying to say you shouldn’t feel bad, so, we don’t ever want to expose you to\u00a0something that is going to make you have to pause and have maybe some internal feelings \u2014 it’s a missed opportunity for\u00a0some really good dialogue.”<\/p>\n

Stalker denied DEI efforts are about “making people feel bad about being White,” instead arguing they are about recognizing the “historical privilege that White people have always had in this country,” which she said still exists today.<\/p>\n

She pointed to the diversity within the state’s largest school district<\/a> \u2014 Jefferson County Public Schools \u2014 which she said represented 145 languages spoken and where 63% of students qualified for free and reduced lunches. She argued DEI is really about “including everyone,” not excluding White people.<\/p>\n

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“What the efforts of DEI are trying to do within a school setting now is to pull in other students,” Stalker continued. “Their stories are\u00a0relative. Their culture, their history, those things are important to\u00a0see reflective in the reading material. And if we don’t allow those\u00a0things to come into our textbooks and to come into our conversations in the classroom in a constructive way,\u00a0then we are simply just trying to whitewash things and I find that to be incredibly problematic.”<\/p>\n

Stalker’s comments drew attention online \u2014 and a strong reaction from Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

“What an evil woman,” Musk posted on X.<\/a> His comment drew more than 1 million views in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Tichenor, the anti-DEI bill<\/a>‘s sponsor, said the legislation would be narrowly tailored and would not “affect instruction on the historical oppression of a particular group of people,” according to the Kentucky Lantern.<\/p>\n

Tichenor also criticized Jefferson and Fayette counties for declining to comply with Trump administration directives to end DEI programs in schools. She argued that, despite receiving funding under the Biden administration, those programs have not improved minority students\u2019 academic outcomes.<\/p>\n

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“DEI reinforces division rather than unity, and encourages students, teachers and staff to see each other through the lens of identity and creating groupthink instead of creating independent thinkers,” Tichenor said.<\/p>\n

Stalker did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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