{"id":521163,"date":"2021-05-18T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521163"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:06:17","slug":"american-airlines-investigating-texas-pilot-who-criticized-critical-race-theory-in-his-local-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-airlines-investigating-texas-pilot-who-criticized-critical-race-theory-in-his-local-school\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Investigating Texas Pilot Who Criticized Critical Race Theory In His Local School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-airlines-investigating-texas-pilot-who-criticized-critical-race-theory-in-his-local-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=521163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/American-Airlines.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>American Airlines is investigating one of its pilots after he spoke out about critical race theory (CRT) being taught in his local school.<\/p>\n<p>The airline chose to investigate Guy Midkiff, 62, after several social media accounts urged the company to audit Midkiff\u2019s social media history. Midkiff is a resident of Southlake, Texas, who has flown for American for over three decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are troubled by the allegations made and have launched an investigation into the matter,\u201d an American Airlines representative told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/education\/2021\/05\/13\/american-airlines-investigating-southlake-pilots-social-media-activity-that-criticizes-carroll-isd-diversity-plan\/?outputType=amp\">Dallas Morning News<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over CRT has raged in Southlake for months, culminating earlier this month is a slew of landslide victories for Republican opponents to CRT to elected positions on the school board and into city offices. The margins of victory were massive, roughly 70% to 30% in each race.<\/p>\n<p>CRT curriculum in Southlake\u2019s Carroll Independent School District was the central issue throughout the election and generated huge interest in the community. The voter turnout for the elections was three times higher than that of years past.<\/p>\n<p>Midkiff was a vocal critic of the school\u2019s proposed CRT-inspired course, called the Cultural Competence Action Plan. Advocates of the proposal accused Midkiff of using his social media accounts, as well as the platform of a podcast he hosts, to harass people. Midkiff has hit back at his accusers, claiming that they are using \u201cbully tactics\u201d to silence him.<\/p>\n<p>Two groups who pushed for CRT to be implemented in the Carroll school district took their complaints about Midkiff to American Airlines over Twitter. The airline acknowledged to complaints and promised to review Midkiff\u2019s social media history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.0909090909091\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This employee stands against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanAir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmericanAir<\/a>\u2019s commitment to inclusion and diversity. It\u2019s clear what he thinks about your training; did he even have to participate or is it just a thing you use for marketing?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Southlake Fami-Lies (@southlake_lies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/southlake_lies\/status\/1391729590360547333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.146835443038\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your employee has been harassing students and community members relentlessly for months for speaking out against the racism they experience in our town. From targeting individual minors and accosting our organization, here are just some of his most recent unprofessional comments: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jsr4ts3Sqk\">https:\/\/t.co\/jsr4ts3Sqk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7b9xhV83jZ\">pic.twitter.com\/7b9xhV83jZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition (@SouthlakeARC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthlakeARC\/status\/1391761389702848515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CRT curriculum teaches the racism in the United States is still embedded within many of its institutions and is the source of inequality across the country. The Southlake community largely rejected that picture of the United States on March 2. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-sweeps-in-texas-election-as-city-revolts-against-biden-backed-critical-race-theory-in-schools\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"31.791361043195\">\n<p><em>Republicans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southlakestyle.com\/community\/city\/southlake-may-2021-election-results-are-in\/\">blew out<\/a>\u00a0Democrats by a roughly 70% to 30% margin to take two spots and control of the Carroll Independent School District board, two city council seats, and the Southlake mayor\u2019s seat. The election results, finalized Sunday, showed a ballooning voter turnout about 3-times larger than past local elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The landslide for conservative Republicans came nine months after progressives on the school board introduced a plan to instate critical race theory in the local school curriculum and force educators to take diversity training and other so-called anti-racism courses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The election \u201cwas a referendum on those who put personal politics and divisive philosophies ahead of Carroll ISD students and families, and their common American heritage and Texas values,\u201d Southlake attorney Hannah Smith, who beat local business consultant Ed Hernandez for a spot on the school board, told NBC News in a statement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe voters have come together in record-breaking numbers to restore unity,\u201d Smith said. \u201cBy a landslide vote, they don\u2019t want racially divisive critical race theory taught to their children or forced on their teachers. Voters agreed with my positive vision of our community and its future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines is investigating one of its pilots after he spoke out about critical race theory (CRT) being taught in his local school.The airline chose to investigate Guy Midkiff, 62, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278402,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/American-Airlines.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"American Airlines Investigating Texas Pilot Who Criticized Critical Race Theory In His Local School","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/American-Airlines.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"American Airlines Investigating Texas Pilot Who Criticized Critical Race Theory In His Local School","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}