you know, from talking about -- you quote alain locke's famous essay on "the new negro," you know, andhe uses that word over and again, at one time it was a prominently used word, negro. and then you refer to it by the end of the anthology, it's african american. >> african american. >> so what was alain locke trying to tell us in that essay on "the new negro?" >> on "the new negro," well, he was saying, "you must look at first of all, you know, drop all of your preconceptions and what you think you see when you look at the negro." and this was in the '20s, 1920s, beginning of the harlem renaissance. he was saying, "there is a new era here. we are in a new, you know, the country is in new." i mean, we've come out of the civil war. "the negro that you think you know," and i'm using you in a very general sense to say america knows, "is redefining himself. and that it behooves you to look very clearly at what you see. don't just imagine, don't just assume you know what you can see. look clearly at what you're seeing." and that idea of redefining oneself, or constantly defining one's self,