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This episode discusses the 13 April 2011 Deadspin.com article, \u201cThe Truth about Race, Religion, and the Honor Code at BYU,\u201d which highlights possible racial factors at play in the way BYU enforces its Honor Code among its athletes. The story states: \u201cSince 1993, at least 70 athletes have been suspended, dismissed, put on probation, or forced to withdraw from their teams or the school after running afoul of the honor code. Fifty-four of them, or nearly 80 percent, are minorities. Forty-one, or almost 60 percent, are black men.\u201d One of the article\u2019s co-authors, Darron Smith, joins Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon and regular contributor Joanna Brooks in a far-ranging discussion of the article and its findings, as well as wider issues of racism with Mormonism and how they might be highlighted and addressed at both the general Church and local congregational levels.