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>> and even if you do all of the right things, and make a billion dollars like oprah, you will probably still face discrimination. welcome to life. however, the idea that discipline, respect, commitment, and education mean acting white is just ludicrous. what is acting black? bill cosby has a lot to say about that mindset and how to fix it. >> the more we see it in the neighborhoods, the more we will accept it that we can't help it. what we need to do is give people more of a confidence that they can, they must realize that the revolution is in their apartment now. the revolution is in their h...

Here because this really was an extraordinary moment. a lot of people applauded the character, the butler. this is the dinner scene. let's watch. >> it's a wild man's fantastic si of what he wants us to bp. >> what are you talking about? he just won the academy award. he's breaking down barriers for all of us. >> by being white. by acting white. sydney portier a nothing but a rich uncle tom. >> look at you. all puffed up with your hat on your head, covering your ear, saying whatever you want. you need to go. >> what? >> get the hell out of my house. get on out. >> everybody just sit down. >> i...

Make excuses for me not doing the right thing. but one of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is there's no longer any room for excuses. >> also in that speech, professor, the president appeared to be relying on the acting white theory that was espoused in the 1980s as you know by dr. john agbu. does that theory in your view do justice to the complexities and challenges that confront young black men today? >> no, it doesn't, martin. i think that, look, we have to have an entire program to talk about the intellectual and the sociological backdrop -- >> sir, i wish w...

Students. so out of resentment, they said, look, we're not going to participate in that same way. this notion of acting white has been overplayed, undertheorized and not been sufficiently in a sophisticated manner dealt with. to use that to beat up on black people i think is wrong. acting white means you don't want to treat people unequally. not acting white means you don't want to be big gotted toward other people. there are a number of ways in which we can cut that. the president unfortunately made a statement that people have then run with. so that if he said that he, as an individual, used...

Asserts that a black person is white, there is nothing funny about it. it is an extremely offensive pejorative and it has been thrown at me. it is hurtful. it is meant to shame you as if you're not doing blackness properly. it is rare for those who charge someone with white to be able to explain what it actually means. here is someone who spent a lot of time discerning what it really mean. the co-author of acting white. rethinking race in post racial america. will be to the show. >> thank you very much. i'm delighted to be here. >> let's break down what the white as, he really means. what is i...