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Trying to use the federal housing law in order to keep people as separate as possible, by subsidizing white flight, by zoning areas in a particular way, by destroying minority neighborhoods. and so it's -- there's an incredible history of basically almost all-out war in the united states about who lives where, and why and who's allowed to go where. >> because all the questions of that are all connected to them. thank you, i wanted to have a little bit of a complicated question around race and conversation, and i appreciate you all for being here. you are going to hang around, uncle wes, becaus...

He paused for a moment and looked at me and said, wes, they get it through their mother's milk. so we just used the phrase, language of disgust. obviously, there's a cultural disgust. and in the south, i think this hatred, this disgust, this disdain for blackness comes through their mother's milk. it's in the air, it's in the apples that they eat, it's in the tobacco that they plant. it is a profound disgust. so the question of interracial marriage a boo-boo, it just doesn't happen. it's impossible. it's against everything that we believe. it's against god's wish in the south. >> this notion o...

Reporter, adam sore roe. also here, dorothy roberts with the university of pennsylvania and author of "killing the black body." also, tanner kolbe, author of "some of my best friends are black," and professor wesley harris, associate provost of faculty professor at m.i.t. and as i have always called him, uncle wes. i want to start with you, adam. it was hard, i think, probably for you, for me, as children of interracial parents, of mixed race parents not to take personally that there's a gag reflex in response to our families, but is cohen on to something about the idea that this threat to the...

21 years old, beginning his senior year of college at howard university right here in washington, d.c. now, his twin brother, wesley harris, was a senior at the university of virginia. and on august 28th, uncle wes took a trailways bus to d.c. where he met my dad and the two had breakfast. and together walked toward the lincoln memorial to attend the march for jobs and freedom. this week, i asked my dad to describe what it was like 50 years ago. this is what he told me. >> and we were early and wes and i were some concerned about whether there would be sufficient numbers of people there to be ...