theory. the practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society. why are people so worried about learning about the role that race and racism may have played in the building of this nation? >> being southern, we live our life by analogy, and one that my mom used to give me a lot is you don't throw a rock and hide your hand, you don't want to escape, you know, the causation of something that you did, and i feel like it takes a lot to stand in your own truth. i think it takes a lot of technology through the rock and everything that you're looking at around you is fought to be our own and i think for a lot of people it is indoctrinating that this idea that a lot of this is my fault and a lot of people were harmed and they don't say anything about it and not represented for how they feel about it. i think acknowledging you threw a rock is a lot easier than slavery and a lot easier than 400 years of being in the back