I helped lead the successful challenge to Harvard and UNC’s admissions programs. Now I am running for U.S. Congress in my home state of North Carolina.
Why am I choosing this path, despite being in my 20s? Because I’m a changemaker who wants to take my track record to impact the nation.
Not only did I successfully advocate for Asian American rights to merit-based treatment, but I also helped diminish the influence of CRT in our nation’s schools and nonprofits. I successfully lobbied the Salvation Army to remove its CRT framework asking employees to “repent” for “racism.” I exposed American Express’s ESG and DEI agenda harming the culture of excellence among its employees.
Now I want to make sure everyone is fairly treated according to merit-based principles, especially in the realm of education. The Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC decision, prevents universities from using different standards for applicants of different races. However, many universities have openly been trying to bypass the decision, doing things like getting rid of standardized tests, promoting race-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and asking racially discriminatory questions on college essays.
I will put a stop to this resistance. I will work with other legislators to require universities to publish anonymized data of their applicant pool – showing how standards are lowered for certain groups but not others.
And I will speak out against the false teachings of “systemic racism” in our schools, especially when they are unsupported by data and reality.
My home state of North Carolina is uniquely motivated on these issues. Our state dealt with over $10 million in insurance claims from the damage of Black Lives Matter riots. In Wake County, North Carolina’s largest county, DEI officers have sapped over $8 million from our schools to advance ideological indoctrination.
North Carolina has an average education system, ranked in the middle of the pack in the nation, and school lockdowns resulting from COVID caused learning to further decline. The truth is, however, the entire nation – with the exceptions of Gulf Coast states like Mississippi and Louisiana – suffered learning loss during COVID, loss that has since failed to recover, even with a $190 billion cash infusion into the education system. I will condition federal education funding on outcomes and improvement in math and reading, countering the handouts the Biden administration gave schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and compelling lethargic school administrations to buck up and direct their spending to help the children learn.
As for lowering the costs of college tuition, I have a simple, yet elegant, solution: end the ridiculous accreditation hoops institutions of higher learning must jump through to provide a diploma. Any group of talented academics should be able to sell their services directly to the consumer, without also having a regulatory middleman to impress. The accreditation cartel even uses their power to sometimes force colleges to comply with a woke social agenda. I will end the ridiculous licensing and regulatory requirements that artificially lower the higher-ed supply in our nation.
There are also lessons North Carolina can teach the nation that I hope to export to a sclerotic Congress. We have a large budget surplus, thanks to an excellent workforce and prudent government investments. Unlike New York and California, we don’t have the problems of people leaving our state. Our population is young, immigrant-heavy, and growing. In fact, we were the sixth-fastest growing state over the last decade, with 67 percent of our growth coming from migration from other states and internationals.
North Carolina has lessons to teach the rest of America. Ultimately, I want to use those lessons to improve our education system and restore America’s culture of excellence.
If there are two words to describe my candidacy, they are: excellence and frugality.
That’s how America was built. The opposite is how America collapses. I intend to put a stop to the deconstruction of America. I intend to secure our path as a country moving forward and leading the world – starting in my home state of North Carolina.
Kenny Xu is a candidate for U.S. Congress in North Carolina. His campaign website, where you can find out more about him, is https://www.kennyxuforcongress.com