- Chip Gaines' sister Shannon Braun is running for a school board position in Colleyville, Texas.
- Braun has spoken out against critical race theory as part of her platform.
- The Gaineses reportedly donated $1,000 to her campaign.
Chip and Joanna Gaines reportedly donated $1,000 to a politician who supports banning critical race theory education in Texas public schools.
Chip Gaines' sister, Shannon Braun, is running for the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (GCISD) school board in Colleyville, Texas.
According to her
website, Braun's platform intends to provide "kids the education they deserve" — which she doesn't believe includes critical race theory.
Critical race theory looks at racism systematically, examining how generations of racism and inequality still impact society today.
"It's an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it," a lawyer and
founder of critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw
told CNN.
To critical race theorists, racism is not something that happened in the past tense, but an experience people of color deal with every day, while white people continue to benefit from an imbalanced system.
Critical race theory is not currently part of the GCISD's curriculum, as
The Dallas Morning News reported, though a growing number of conservatives claim Texas school districts have plans to implement it.
Texas legislators are considering passing a bill that would make it more difficult for teachers to educate their students about racism, while deaths caused by
domestic extremists who have racist ideologies are on the rise.