Southlake: Welcome to Perfect City, U.S.A.
Success must be in the water in Southlake. How else to explain the dominance in football and just about every other endeavor athletic or otherwise tackled by these small-town kids with the big houses.
Near the back of the Southwest plane bound for Lubbock, a pretty blonde named LeAnn Herchman twists around in her seat to talk to a fat man in the row behind her. Herchman is 18 years old and wears a green No. 11 football jersey that belongs to her boyfriend, Riley Dodge, quarterback of the Southlake Carroll Dragons, the best high school football team in the state of Texas maybe the best high school football team in the country.
A racist video sparked change in a wealthy Texas suburb. Then a silent majority fought back.
Mike Hixenbaugh
Oops!
Robin Cornish was at work in the fall of 2018 when she got a text message from another parent. It was a link to a video showing several white high school students laughing as they filmed themselves shouting the N-word at a party.
One of the students in the video had shared it on Snapchat, and now it was going viral.
Cornish, a 51-year-old Black mother of five, recognized the girl leading the chant as the younger sibling of one of her son’s former friends. Cornish was upset as she watched the 8-second clip, she said, but she wasn’t surprised.