Rhode Island State Rep. Patricia Morgan set Twitter ablaze when she blasted out a bizarre post claiming she’d lost a Black friend due to a recent conservative obsession: critical race theory.
, the Republican lawmaker complained that her friend had become “hostile and unpleasant” towards her—simply because she’s a white woman.
“Oof....the fact that you think this tweet is ok shows just how much you have to learn. It might be she was just too exhausted to be your teacher,” one Twitter user In an interview with The Daily Beast, Morgan refused to name the pal, but said they used to be close until the friend stopped responding to her phone calls and messages.
Morgan believes that her support for the bill and banning critical race theory is what cost her the friendship. Despite the odd wording of her tweet, she claimed to have more than one Black friend. “Teachers have reported it to me. I’ve seen it in the textbooks and some of the reading material that is being used,” she said, without providing the names of the textbooks or their publishers.
But without evidence, Morgan blamed critical race theory on a host of education issues, from not preparing kids for life after high school to poor scores on statewide tests. She pointed to an unnamed group of kids who could not make change or take orders while working the cash register at a part time job—and faulted critical race theory.