w. kamau bell!se ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: nice shirt. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, good to see you again! >> thank you, thanks for having me. >> stephen: it's been a little bit. that's yours-- that's yours in case you need to hydrate. i saw you reaching for it. >> thank you, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> stephen: i keep mine hidden over here, so the guests can't get at it. ( laughter ) now, i have to point out. your t-shirt there is very interesting. it says: "'yes, he's a racist.' me, 2017." ( laughter ) >> yes, yes. >> stephen: is the "me" you? >> yes, yes. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: what is the context- - what is the context of that quote? >> a friend of mine makes these shirts. sayittomyshirt.org. there's a lot of questions that we ask in 2018 and 2017. it just eliminates the first question. "is donald trump a...?" yes, he's a racist. >> stephen: does this benefit? it's an org, so is it a nonprofit? >> yes, yes. i don't take any of the money. all the proceeds go to-- we did the boys and girls club

w. kamau bell. me visceral response, "i'm not a racist." but our next guest dr. robin di angelo argues simply and sadly that's not true. that an unconscious bias exists within even the most progressive of us white people. she would know. dr. diangelo says she was one of them. she said is she recognized her own white fragility. she sat down to talk about this with our michelle martin. >> so white's white fragility. that's the title of your back and the subtitle is "why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism." why white fragility. >> the fragility part is meant to capture how little it takes to set white people off into defensiveness. so for many white people the mere suggesting that white has meaning will cause us to erupt in defensiveness. the fact that i'm generalizing right now for many of your listeners will set off defensiveness. individualism is a precious ideology for white people and we don't like to be generalized about. >> so let's back up a second and talk about how you got interested in this work and subject. i know you're an academic and y

w. kamau bell. ♪ i bumped into him in the cnn scene room recently fondling his emmy, and i asked him, "kamauanywhere on earth for like a mash-up episode of my show and yours, where would that be?" he said kenya. so, here we are, "united shades unknown" or "parts united." scratch that. that doesn't sound good.

w. kamau bell. i bumped into him in the cnn steam room following his emmy.ome out, imagine a mash up of my show and yours, where would that be? he said, kenya. so, here we are, united shades unknown, or parts united, scratch that, that doesn't sound good. america's shady est parts. no, that doesn't work either. unknown shades of -- ♪ ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world, i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha-la-la-la-la ♪ sha-la-la-la-la-la ♪ sha-la-la-la-la sloets ♪ ♪ ♪ >> first time on this koocouldn nebt? >> yes. >> i'm going to be teasing you relentlessly. >> yes, yes, yes. >> african-american, there is a lot of talk about going back to this thing of the mother land. >> seriously radicalizing experience for african-american comics who come here before. >> yes. >> life changing. we shall see. >> i mean even walking through the streets, i have a feeling when i moved from chicago to oakland, you hear about oakland being this black city. and you get there and it's like there's black people here, but it's not like -- this is what i imagined oakla

w. kamau bell. i bumped into him in the cnn scene room recently fondling his emmy, and i asked him, "kamau, if you could go anywhere on earth for like a mash-up episode of my show and yours, where would that be?" he said kenya. so, here we are, "united shades unknown" or "parts united." scratch that. that doesn't sound good. "america's shadiest parts." no, that doesn't work either. "unknown shades of --" ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ ♪ >> anthony: first time on this continent? >> kamau: yes. >> anthony: i'm going to be teasing you relentlessly about this by the way. >> kamau: that's fine, please, please. yes. as a african-american, there's a lot of talk about going back to this thing the "motherland." >> anthony: and look, a seriously radicalizing experience for african-american comi

w. kamau bell on the trip of a lifetime. take a look at this. >> who gets to tell the stories?stion asked often. the answer, in this case, for better or for worse, is i do. at least this time out. ♪ first time on this continent. >> yes. >> it's unbelievable. >> astonishing. >> i always wanted to do it. >> try that in new york. >> new york, in your mind, is where the writer's life was. >> cheers. >> superb and crazy. ♪ >> "parts unknown," the final episodes, starts tomorrow at 9:00 on cnn. stop acting the same old way.to in today's complex world, you need a partner that is driven to provide you with better solutions for these challenging times, one that is willing to disrupt the industry, and break free from conventional thinking. (thudding) we are a different kind of financial company. we are athene, and we are driven to do more. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on is boost®. delicious boost® high protein nuritional drink now has 33% more protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals boost® high protein. be up for life. boost® high protein. you don't s