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Shannon and i will be back in an hour. Outnumbered starts right now. This is outnumbered. Here with us today and todays hashtag one lucky guy, tv personality and veterans advocate, montel williams. Hes back and outnumbered. Welcome back. Good to be back. Its great to see you. You guys have been firing up every day. As much as i can catch you, i catch you. Thats nice. Thats great. I want to make sure im prepared if you ever did ask me back. Thats what i said last time, too. Just a couple of weeks...

Thats unpredictable. as dark as i am, my wife is white but i have a daughter who is about your complexion. i youre going to find out you have the option to pass. >> thats part of what i internalized. even though my parents didnt talk about it, my parents didnt talk about race. my mom was this woman from the south side of chicago when her neighborhood was all white. my dad was from the rural south, jim crow. his father wasnt the black doctor. he was the nigger doctor in town. so when they got tog...

Indigenous, and people of color, aka bipoc folks overtaking the white folks, aint the kumbaya some people think it would be. but lets talk race. >> race is a construct. people like to say race is a social construct, and we like to speak as if race doesnt matter. but when i think about race, i think about race as a way that society has characterized people really for the purpose of instituting power. >> mm-hmm. >> and to protect privilege. >> dr. yaba play, scholar, activist, author. her book "on...

But that wasnt how it was defined at its origin. when we look at the history of race and i think about the ways whiteness, for example, was defined, whiteness was defined as pure, meaning that at the time when folks were defining race, they were really trying to imbue blackness with a certain level of evil, right? a certain level of barbarism that all it would take is that one drop to automatically ruin the purity and the sanctity of whiteness. if were looking back five generations to see whos i...

We usually call the middle east. they can check white or the category "some other race," which means their community is losing access to resources and power. ronna and alyssa are two asia americans that want to redefine -- they prefer swana or southwest asian north african. >> i love philadelphia. >> okay. >> because it is a majority minority city. >> yeah. >> and its exactly where i want to be because of that. i feel like there are more voices represented here in philly. and i do feel more unde...

>> lets talk race. >> race is a construct, and people say race is a social construct, and we like to speak as if race doesnt matter. but when i think about race, i think of race in a way that society has characterized people really for the purpose of instituting power and to protect privilege. >> reporter: scholar, activist, author, her book "one drop" shifting the lenses on race challenged the narrow perceptions of blackness and the diversity of what it means to be black in america. this is not...

Than yesterday? do we hate more black people today than yesterday? why dont we have a discussion about whats the problem? and discuss it. >> i think one of the bigs -- big problems is financial. it has to do with the federal reserve policy. the main thing thats increased has been the stock market. thats obl benefitted people who are wealthy enough to invest there. i think that the income gap has widened dramatically. >> this is what im talking about. this is excuse. we will not talk about the pr...

>> and so if somebody asks you, what are you, do people ask you that sometimes? >> yeah, but i would just say american, asian, and i guess just jewish. >> what are you made up of? >> black and white people. >> i say like american, and im like mixed. >> is it ever hard? do you ever feel like you have to choose one side over the other? >> no. >> no. i dont think that is -- like we dont really have to do that. >> its probably not much different from being just like one race. >> not at all. i dont r...

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