that horrible note of gracelessness. that hurts and harms the infrastructure of the psyche or at least reveals its damage. so, for me when i think about the structure of whiteness and what it does to black people and how we view ourselves, or it leaves us to seek after the stanfords of a dominant culture to want to be accepted according to what the dominant white culture says and the like, and it has the dill tearous consequences every. >> telecast about the whiteness has on perceived otherness. beyond race, when we talk about sexual identity, talk about religion, expand it out a little bit. >>> well, i think i know what you mean. it's real a really powerful question. if whiteness is set as a standard, an unchallengeable standard, implicit one, one that can be empirically verifiable. it's the best. do you think is steve king the congressman no other culture has done anything. we've done everything. slow down with that, brother. but he thinks he has proof and is going to tell you. not going to say, hey, africanss and -- t