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Woman and i get what you're saying about sort of her capacity for discourse but i also think it's the code switching. it's a particular kind of discourse she was good at. >> this gets at your broader point about intersectionality because this is also about class in addition to race and gender and how we view class and o.j.'s daughter obviously is of a very different class than rachel. that shades people's perceptions of trustworthness, of honesty. it's also skin color, she was a beauty. >> all of it together. >> all of it together. >> maybe we did learn something about ourselves. i really appr...

That. >> dialect most black american people and should be a badge of prize. instead -- >> why don't we do the whole show in that dialect so we can get a flavor for it? >> we are talking about code switching. there is formal, informal. white, mostly black. you can do both. we are in a rather formal context and most of us are not black. so this is not the context. that does not mean when you do it you are doing something wrong. i wish we had more pride in the dialect. black people 100 years ago tended to do more than we do now. goods he can do that. >> because this man is being judge today often...

>> the okie-doke. >> that's been a crucial part of his appeal to his followers. the president who once refused change from a cashier says we're straight, is great at code switching. he can move from speaking in a black way to speaking with white speaking norms. he can sound comfortable in both areas. language is central to how race is perceived, so our next guest examined obama and the politics of race through the lens of language through a fascinating new book called articulate white black: obama and race in the u.s. it's co-authored is sammie alen. welcome, professor. >> great to be here. th...

To scratch it together. because you're part of the american family. what's happening down in new orleans? where's your dollar? where's your stafford act money? makes no sense. tells me the bullet hasn't been taken out. >> so there's the president doing what so many of us, as african-americans do, he's code switching. he's speaking to an mask american audience, he has the fire. just two days before the debate this dropped and the narrative is somehow the president's an angry black man. is that part of what we saw him pull back on wednesday? >> i don't think he had to attack mitt romney in order...

Dude, you know that you are, and you know that's why we elected you. we wanted to see one of us in office. and we're -- we are at the very -- we're the base of barack obama, we're his base, and i think -- you would see george w. bush talk directly to his base sometime in clear tones in way barack does through code switching but doesn't talk districtly to his base. sometimes as a black person that is frustrating. >> what other american president, when he tells the story of american greatness. they all do here is why america is great. what other american president has made the contributions, the...