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Racism was articulated by the president of the united states. president johnson, who vetoed civil rights, saying it was reverse discrimination, it took away from white people and gave to black people. but that wasn't the last time we saw it. we saw it during the civil rights movement when many white people said, equality, being forced to serve you, violates my civil rights. so the idea that antiracism is antiwhite is a tried and true playbook move. it used to be part of the neo nationalist right. it is now moved to the center of the republican party on the heels of this so-called hysteria arou...

Boards against their children being taught they're racist. it turns out they are republican activists. not just regular old parents. >> big surprise there, right? >> yeah. not surprising at all. so i guess my last question to you would be, what do you worry is sort of purpose of what they're trying to do? this is political. it is about getting out the white voters in 2022. is there a bigger risk to naming critical race theory as some sort of marxist plot? >> well, of course. the biggest risk is that this tried and true framing of anti-racism as racist against white people will win again. it wo...

Medical school at davis because he is white. the place he might have had was given to a minority applicant with lower test scores than he had. the court said that was wrong. but the court also said that race can be a legal factor in a school admission program. the court was deeply divided five to four and the various opinions ran to 40,000 words. >> you hear that? reverse discrimination, right? we've heard that term a ton. since then, it's basically the the concept that was used in the argument the supreme court chief justice john roberts made in 2007 in an opinion in a school desegregation ca...

1978. 35 year-old white man twice been denied admission to medical school claimed he was unfairly rejected because of the racial quota system. >> the supreme court ruled today he must be admitted to a school which turned him down in the case of reverse discrimination. he was not admitted to the university because he is white. the place he might have had was given to a minority applicant with lower test scores. the court said it was wrong. the court said race can be a legal factor in the school admission program. the the court was deeply divided. and the various opinions ran to 40,000 words. >>...

Race theory is anti-racism, which some people say promotes reverse discrimination. you believe that? >> look, i think if you go down the road of critical race theory, you're going to try to pit one side against another, one race against another. that is the opposite of what i think all americans want to to. if you go back to martin luther king, i thought he was brilliant on this point. he said you should judge people on the basis of the content of their character, not on the race. i think we need a lot more unity and working together and where there's issues and where there's problems that nee...