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Episode of the new nbc podcast southlake which drops monday morning. joining me is antonio hilton, an nbc news correspond and co-host of southlake podcast. you spoke with the professor who coined the term critical race theory. what were her thoughts on why southlake parents were so quick to react to that term? that s right. i had an extended conversation a couple of months ago with kimberly crenshaw, one of the founding scholars of critical race theory and talked about what it was like to see decades of her work become so solarized and politicized and her reflection of her real message at the time was she saw this as a direct backlash to the movement for racial and social justice in the wake of george floyd s murder. what s fascinating that mike hix and my co-host and i trace in this podcast covering southlake is exactly what happens in this period in the summer of 2020 ....
The same conversations you d expect in more rural areas. what do you have to say about that difficulty and that tennision that s happening to those african-american business leaders there? it s been fascinating to see the response from our listeners so far because i think one of the things the podcast does or a secondary theme in the podcast is an element of the black experience that many people perhaps don t pay much attention to. this is an affluent community where people are former dallas cowboys or in the nba and so you don t think of them as needing to have conversations about equality or wondering if their children are suffering in schools. but coming forward and saying despite their wealth, their students are feeling isolated. their student comes home describing racial trauma. and they are trying to have conversations with their mostly white neighbors about, you know, how do we address these issues. and so that s really the tension of this podcast. is racism an individual ....