Rep. Burgess Owens, a U.S. Congressman representing Utah’s 4th district since 2021, posted a series of statements on April 29, 2026, addressing educational standards and judicial decisions in the United States.
In one post from April 29, 2026, Owens wrote: “The soft bigotry of low expectations runs rampant in Democrat-run cities and blue states. As they proactively target and remove accelerated and gifted programs for high-achieving minority students, they simultaneously lower the standards for everyone else. When we judge a https://t.co/CaQVansVBL”.
Later that day, he commented on campus culture: “Colleges and universities should strive to cultivate intellectual diversity on campus by exposing students to new and sometimes controversial ideas they may not agree with. This mission is becoming increasingly urgent as students report increasing intolerance to views that https://t.co/v2mD4q8vv8” (April 29, 2026).
Owens also responded to a Supreme Court decision regarding racial gerrymandering on April 29, 2026: “I welcome the Supreme Court’s correct decision. The left has spent decades hiding their racial obsession behind the banner of civil rights. Today, that game ends. Racial gerrymandering is not protection. It is the left’s plantation politics repackaged with a law degree. The”.
Burgess Owens was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1951 and currently resides in Salt Lake City at age 71. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree.
