North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson checks off Left's political 'boxes,' but receives ‘scant’ campus invites

The conflict against wokeness connected college campuses is heating up – and University of North Carolina has joined nan guidance and decidedly banned Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statements from hiring and admissions practices.

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During an quality connected "Fox & Friends Weekend," North Carolina's Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said that contempt checking each nan Lefts' governmental "boxes," only a "scant" of schools person invited him to speak connected field – arguing that this is woke acquisition institutions' latest effort to combat America's push towards title neutrality. 

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina delivers remarks astatine nan 2022 CPAC successful Dallas, Texas. Robinson serve's arsenic North Carolina's first Black lieutenant governor. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

"I'm nan first Black lieutenant politician of North Carolina, and I cheque each nan boxes connected nan Left. I was poor, black, I overcame each those things. Only a scant fewer of these universities person invited maine onto their campuses, moreover to circuit nan campus," Robinson said to co-host Will Cain.

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"Very fewer of them beforehand nan truth that I was capable to flooded each those likelihood and go nan first Black lieutenant governor," he said. "So I don't judge that they unrecorded up to their ain standards, rather frankly."

"Do you deliberation this move by UNC will beryllium thing that tin really push nan strategy backmost towards title neutrality?" Cain asked. "Or will they simply find caller ways?

Robinson replied "absolutely."

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"I judge that's precisely what it's trying to combat. But what this really boils down to is maturity. If these folks successful these positions are mature and if they're really committed to nan thought of diversity and inclusion, that they would see everybody. That includes voices that antagonistic their ain communicative to counter, rather frankly, their ain beliefs. But they don't," he said Sunday.

Robinson continued, urging Americans to recognize that woke acquisition institutions are strategically suppressing blimpish voices. 

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"Conservative voices, those folks who don't spell on pinch nan position quo, who push backmost against nan schedule of nan position quo successful immoderate way. By and large, those group I've heard, person been pushed aside. Their voices are not met pinch a friends response, and successful immoderate cases pushed retired completely," he said. 

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is shown astatine his location successful Colfax, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. The Greensboro, N.C., autochthonal was elected successful 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, file) (AP PHOTO)

Cain concluded by asking nan lieutenant politician if his erstwhile colleges, nan University of North Carolina A&T and University of North Carolina Greensboro, had invited him backmost to speak. 

Robinson revealed that neither of his erstwhile universities extended him an invitation, ruling it arsenic a "sign of nan times."

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