Okay, we're here at the movies.

We're going to watch a scene from my new film, Am I

racist? And I'll give a little commentary as we go along, walk you through it.

Before we play this, just a quick setup,

if you haven't seen the movie yet.

This is the first support group that I go to

as I'm just beginning the journey

to decenter my whiteness and I'm really confronting my

internalized racism and so it's very important that I go to this group as a support group

for people that are dealing with their own

whiteness. At this point where it picks up I've already been at the group for a

while and I've been participating. I feel really good about it. I don't know how the

other people in the group feel. I get emotional at one

point I leave to the cry room, which they have set up specifically for white people

who cry because you don't want to cry in front of a black woman, we're told. While I'm

in the cry room getting very emotional, that's when the people

and the group realize who I am. They realize that I'm a dastardly conservative commentator and I come

back in and the tone is very much shifted and that's where it picks up so let's watch

The white participants in the group feel that there's something in themselves that they have to overcome.

When all that's being requested...

I have no idea why she stands.

I've watched this scene a million times. I don't know why that woman stands.

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