Lydia discusses a very local story that happened in December and January 2020 at Lipscomb Academy, where Dean Paschall, a Black woman with a PhD, was fired after a multi-millionaire white father and country music singer, John Rich, wrote an email to the Lipscomb administration about her teaching students about white privilege. The response from the Academy and local news sources show how white systems of power, historically and currently in Nashville, construct and deconstruct the power to be diverse, to be represented, to be heard. Lydia concludes that the real loss is the white systems that govern not just the educational spaces in Nashville, but also the national and local media that positioned the story as neutral. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elmahaba-center/message