Is DEI a slur now? Plus, control & basketball

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last week, the city's 39 year old mayor, Brandon Scott, a Black man, stepped out to address the crisis. Hours later, a tweet went viral calling Scott a "DEI Mayor." To which Brittany and her guests, NPR's Gene Demby and Alana Wise, say "wait what?" The three dig into the racism lurking under the surface of this kind of rhetoric.

Then, as March Madness reaches its final nail-biting stages, Brittany takes a look at the reality of "student-athletes." What may feel like an accurate descriptor of these players is actually a legal classification that bars them from asking for worker's compensation and other benefits - benefits usually given to employees. Brittany is joined by sports business reporter Amanda Christovich and Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in Business at Boise State University Sam Ehrlich. They discuss how the recent news of Dartmouth men's basketball team unionizing opens up doors for broader conversations around how we value "work."

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0:00.0	In this country, some truths aren't self-evident. In NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths,
0:07.6	a collection of stories as wide-ranging and real as the people who tell them, we celebrate the Black experience for all its
0:15.8	soul and richness. Search NPR, Black Stories, Black Truths, wherever you get podcasts.
0:23.0	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to it's been a minute from NPR.
0:31.0	A show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:36.0	This week we are connecting the dots between DEI, the N word, and a massive bridge collapse.
0:50.0	I know, I know.
0:51.0	How are all these things related.
0:53.0	Well we're going to find out today with Jean Denby,
0:55.0	co-host of NPR's Code Switch.
0:57.0	What's good?
0:58.0	And Alana Wise who covers race and identity for NPR,
1:02.0	Gene Alana, welcome to its pen minute.
1:04.6	Happy to be here.
1:05.6	Thank you for having us friends.
1:08.4	Last week a major bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a massive container ship
1:12.6	ran into it.
1:13.6	And the city's 39-year-old mayor, Brandon Scott,
1:17.2	a black band, arrived on the scene
1:20.0	to address what had happened.
1:21.9	Everyone, this is a unthinkable, a tragedy.
1:25.6	We have to, first and foremost, pray.
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