Episode 203 Scott Broughton.

Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Scott Broughton.

When Scott Broughton was growing up, the term "White privilege" hadn’t been coined yet. He never questioned his comfortable living - a young White boy from a well-known family in a small farming town in south Alabama - because there was almost no exposure to or interaction with the Black families that lived “across the tracks”. He had no idea that his private school was one of many post-segregation academies that cropped up in the late 60’s as public schools integrated. Even when he was old enough to start recognizing the echo chamber of anti-Black sentiments, anti-diversity rhetoric and outright racism, who was he to say something? How do you address it when it comes from your peers? Your classmates? And sometimes even your own teachers and family?

Forty years later, Scott has a clearer understanding of how his very skin color was a major factor in the comfortable life he led. He has realized his privilege is quantifiable and how the racist norms of just a few generations past that provided that privilege had such a catastrophic impact on the Black community today. That work became the basis for his original screenplay My Son’s Voice, a film chronicling the story of two families - a Black family and a White family - as their lives intertwine in the 1960’s, 1990’s and 2020’s in the fictional town of Racine, AL. The film is currently in pre-production and is seeking crowdfunding donors and grassroots investors through his website MySonsVoice.com as well as having open, honest dialogue about White privilege on his TikTok account @mysonsvoicethemovie (https://www.tiktok.com/@mysonsvoicethemovie)

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