WATCH: Brandon Gill Thoroughly Dismantles Race-Baiting Activist

U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) thoroughly dismantled a self-styled Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) scholar during a recent House Oversight Committee hearing.

Testifying before the committee was Dr. Shaun Harper, a “scholar” who specializes on DEI policies, particularly on the implementation of such policies in K-12 schools. Over the course of his career, he has been granted more than $20 million in grants from organizations like the Soros-directed Open Society collective, as well as Bill and Melinda Gates, among many others.

Rep. Gill began his line of questioning by asking Harper whether he believes people should be treated differently on the basis of race. “It’s just a yes or no question,” the congressman added, to which Harper claimed it was not.

“People should receive the services and the support and the remedies that are owed to them,” the DEI activist said after Gill followed up once again, at which point the congressman noted that he was essentially answering the question in the affirmative. The congressman then tuned his question a bit to ask whether race should be considered during employer hiring practices, at which point Harper said he did not believe white people are the only group qualified for jobs.

“I didn’t say that. Nobody said that. I asked you if race should be considered an employer hiring practices, and you’re not going to intimidate me by slandering me as a racist,” Gill shot back, which prompted a visibly flustered Harper to claim he didn’t call him a racist. “No, you implied it though,” the congressman noted.

For the next minute or so, the freshman congressman continued to ask whether race should be considered in employer hiring practices, reiterating that it was a yes or no question. Harper repeatedly refused to give a direct answer, at which point Gill asked which races should be “preferred.”

An increasingly flustered Harper once again claimed he did not say exactly what he implied, which continued for another minute or so.

Finally, the congressman pivoted to the topic of college admissions by asking a hypothetical question about what should happen in the case of one spot remaining in a university. “Let’s say one is white and one is black and there’s one slot available, should they be evaluated based on the same objective criteria? Test scores, for instance,” he asked.

Once again, Harper refused to give a direct answer, instead claiming that he believes in “holistic admissions,” which prompts universities to consider ethnic background, gender and other immutable characteristics in admissions. “Yeah, no, I can’t answer that question for you as a proponent of holistic admissions,” he said.

“Got it, I’ll take that as a no,” the congressman concluded.