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Southlake

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Southlake, Racism, South Lake, Carroll High School, Education, Society & Culture, Texas, Nbc News, School Board, Politics, Documentary, Critical Race Theory, News, Race

4.87K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Parents in Southlake, Texas, wanted to confront racism in their schools. Instead, the suburb is being consumed by a national backlash over critical race theory.

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0:00.0

What brought us here was a superior public school system.

0:13.2

Welcome to South Lake Texas.

0:16.0

We're like, what's the catch?

0:18.9

What's the catch?

0:20.7

South Lake is in a maculant suburb outside Dallas.

0:23.7

It's the kind of place where community is everything.

0:26.8

Everything revolves around the schools and the town's pride and joy.

0:31.4

The South Lake Carol Dragons.

0:33.4

I was really happy in the beginning.

0:39.3

I wasn't aware of what was going on in our city.

0:42.3

The video surfaced over the weekend showing students chanting a racial slur, an offensive

0:47.1

video with a disturbing racist chant.

0:49.6

The video went viral and was eventually removed from social media websites when school officials

0:54.8

learned.

0:55.8

In 2018, a 9-second video blew open some very old divides and exposed and uncomfortable

1:02.6

truth.

1:03.8

Your experience at school has a lot to do with your skin color.

1:07.3

He said, hey, Frankie, how do you get a black out of a tree?

1:09.9

He said, what?

1:10.9

He said you cut the rope.

1:12.3

You don't like the word microaggression?

1:14.4

Then let's call it what it is.

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