David French

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18 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 May

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The Don Lemon Show · Redistricting & Democracy: What's Happening to Voting Rights?! · 8 May 2026 podcast

Now I have changed on a couple of things.

I have absolutely changed in my perception of the severity, lingering severity of race problems in this country.

I've absolutely changed on that.

And a lot of that is due to a very, very distinct and personal experience.

We adopted a child from Ethiopia.

This might sound super naive, but when we adopted our youngest daughter, I did not have in my mind

that she was going to come to my community and have a substantially different experience as a child than my two older kids.

But by golly, she had a substantially different experience.

There was not a school that she went to where she was not called the N-word repeatedly.

There was a point where I picked her up after a high school football game.

This was in Nashville at a game at Montgomery Bell Academy, one of the highest-end schools in all of Middle Tennessee.

This is a very wealthy school.

We went to pick her up, and she was shaking.

And her friend, who was a Latina, was shaking as well.

And I was like, what happened?

And she said a truck full of guys was screaming the N-word at us and drove straight for us, and they just swerved away at the very last second.

All of a sudden, I realized that I'd been in a bubble and that my white, educated, upper-middle-class bubble in the South had really intentionally screened out racism.

Hi, Don.

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