what they ended up with was a beer summit between henry louis gates and -- >> officer james crowley.e president biden and a friend of the sergeants were there. no medical marijuana was cited, d at the beer summit. it was a personalization of what was suitably a structural issue. in retrospect, this was probably the least lethal encounter between a black person in the police that obama would confront during his presidency because soon afterward, as we all know, the pileup of bodies and the extraordinary, if you will, resistance to police brutality on the parts of activists would be ignited because black people were being routinely mistreated and abused by the police. and obama's slow to a respond engagement with this issue certainly, i think, tend to exacerbate what was already a profound structural problem. juan: michael, one of the most fascinating themes throughout your book is the battle that has occurred among the leadership of the black community in terms of how to properly raise criticism or questions about the obama's policies. the amazing battles that occurred between the int

in fact you start when you learned about your ancestry having gone on henry louis gates program and finding that it goes back to a slave master who goes back to the days of the pilgrims and then fast forward and to talk about how race by a single mother and your father raised by a single mother and at that point they had the feelings of growing up, but did you having grown up with two parents it seems to be a theme of trying to identify the finale of links of both blood and long blood. >> guest: i start the chapter in a funny way because what he did to me in this gift which is like jimmy olsen with superman -- [laughter] it starts off as a comical humbling connection with this amazing hero and then this odyssey finding out i could trace it back to the earliest americans coming to the country that i directly descended from a white confederate soldier of men who fought in the alabama creekmore but i'm a descendent of the slaveowners. it made me understand our connections including introducing me to my mom's first cousins who never knew they were deleted because that is to tighten the south wh

i saw the chapter i hate henry louis gates because what he did to me was in his roots and partnering with john lewis is like partnering with superman. so is this really comical, humbling connection with this amazing hero. then this odyssey of finding out that i could trace my lineage back to the earliest americans come into this country, that i'm directly descended from a white confederate soldier, direct descendent of men who fought in wars moving indiana native americans off his lands but at the same time i'm a descendent of slaveowners and slaves. this unbelievable tapestry that he revealed to me made me understand our connection including introducing me to my mom's first cousin who never knew they were related to a black family because that was a time in the south when you had a lot of lost. >> host: you had white cousins. >> guest: so that expanded my view of family right there to know that i could be walking past folks and as louis gates said there's not a black person in this country unless they came in the flipside is there's many whites have black branches and their family t

henry louis gates, the head of african-american studies at harvard, after he took my dna. he had my dna sequenced and he said "you are white, baby, you are the whitest man i've ever met." so i might have the most privilege of any white person yohave ever met. how do i identify that in my own life? because if i have a white privilege i want to be able to identify it. give me some hints as to my white privilege. >> you have a show, you have a lot of money. >> stephen: that's true. >> a lot of access. >> stephen: yeah. >> that is true. i have a show, i have a lot of money. >> you do. >> stephen: the fact that i'm sitting here and are you sitting there is part of that white privilege. >> it's about role and about access. and what you can do is extend that privilege so you can dismantle it, right. people, you can amplify issues in ways other people can't. and you can use your resources to create space for people. ( applause ) >> stephen: let's switch seats. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: so deray, anything you would like to ask me@about being white? >> yeah,h, would love t

henry louis gates, the head of african-american studies at harvard, after he took my dna. he had my dna sequenced and he said "you are white, baby, you are the whitest man i've ever met." so i might have the most privilege of any white person you have ever met. how do i identify that in my own life? because if i have a white privilege i want to be able to identify it. give me some hints as to my white privilege. >> you have a show, you have a lot of money. >> stephen: that's true. >> a lot of access. >> stephen: yeah. i have a show, i have a lot of money. >> you do. >> stephen: the fact that i'm sitting here and are you sitting there is part of that white privilege. >> it's about role and about access. and what you can do is extend that privilege so you can dismantle it, right. you can create opportunity for people, you can amplify issues in ways other people can't. and you can use your resources to create space for people. ( applause ) >> stephen: let's switch seats. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: so deray, anything you would like to ask me about being white? >> yeah

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henry louis gates. >> yeah, it was fantastic. >> oh, okay. >> that's a very inspirational show. >> ohou. thank you. hello. how you doing? >> good to meet you. i'm a student -- >> excellent. >> and i'm doing rotation right now, so i'm wondering if you have any advice for me. >> yeah. learn how you learn. >> okay. >> because everybody learns differently. and if you can sort of manipulate the things that you need to learn into your area of strength, it makes it go a whole lot faster and a lot easier. >> can i get a photo with you? >> sure, absolutely. thank you. >> and the other thing is this too will pass. >> okay. [laughter] >> that's a good one. >> okay. >> thank you. >> absolutely. thank you. hi there, young lady. how you doing? okay, good. sure, absolutely. [inaudible conversations] >> all right, thank you. >> that's my hail low. [laughter] halo. all right, thank you. >> [inaudible] >> oh, fantastic. tell them we're working hard to make medicine fun again. >> yeah. because it's not fun right now. >> nice to meet you. >> all right, you too. >> may i get a picture? >> sure. >> thank y