NBC host Chuck Todd was admonished by investigative reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones on Sunday for remarks that otherize parents of color.
During a Meet the Press special broadcast about schools and critical race theory, Todd wondered how old children should be before they are taught about race.
"I think this is coming through a racial lens, but there's this, you know, parents are saying, 'Hey, don't make my kid feel guilty,'" Todd told Hannah-Jones. "And I know a parent of color is going, 'What are you talking about? You know, I've got to teach reality.' When do you do it and how do you do it?"
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"Well, I think you should think just a little bit about your framing," Hannah-Jones replied. "You said 'parents' and then you said 'parents of color.'"
"White parents and parents of color," Todd interrupted. "No. Fair point."
"As a matter of fact, white parents are representing fewer than half of all public school parents," Hannah-Jones noted. "And yet, they have an outsized voice in this debate."
Watch the video below from NBC:
WATCH: Nikole Hannah-Jones reacts to the enactment of laws prohibiting “The 1619 Project” in education: “I think we’re going into a dark age of repression and suppression of the truth.”@nhannahjones: “We’re going to have to decide what kind of country [we] want to be” pic.twitter.com/dCU1Fhe1dD
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) December 26, 2021
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