Welcome to episode 12 of the PropG show. We are in the midst of a national crisis, specifically

the Black Lives Matter movement, systemic racism has been the catalyst for what has been not a regional,

not a citywide protest, but a national movement. And it would be tone deaf to try and avoid or talk

about something else today. So we're going to attempt to, as best we can, see if we can shed some

new light on the topic. So today we're bringing on a friend in my old boss,

professor and Dean Emeritus of NYU Stern School of Business, Peter Henry, who's also a well-regarded

economist and author. We're bringing Peter on, A, because he's an incredibly intelligent and

cypher person, and as a black man who has family and law enforcement, the bottom line is just

has a perspective that I can never have. And so we wanted to bring him on and get his insight

and views into some of these fairly complex times. So with that, let's kick off for interview with

Dean Peter Henry, one of the most impressive people I know, a true story about Peter, true story

about Peter, when he was appointed Dean, I read about him, the youngest Dean appointed to a business

former scholar athlete, played football at UNC, wrote scholar, PhD from MIT, the whole,

just like crazy resume, right? First time I ever saw Peter, he was with his mother walking

her out of church on the Sunday. I mean, as one of those guys, he kind of don't believe he's

for real, but he is. Anyways, with that, our conversation with Dean Peter Henry.

Peter, where does this podcast find you? I am in New York City right near NYU. Let's

let's bust right into it. This is, yeah, the social unrest, gripping our city, gripping the

country. It's not a regional thing. It's a national thing. Talk a little bit about the

inevitability of this moment and what you think it means to the country. Yeah, I think it really

wasn't inevitable, Scott. You know, I couldn't have predicted that this would happen now. In fact,

I thought the moment we're seeing right now, we'd see maybe 10 years from now, but just stepping

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