a world apart, a world separated, w.e.b. du bois famously said from the white world by a veil. they could not see us, but we could see them. what they did in that box is dump all the stereotypes, fantasies, paranoid assertions, accusing us of being subhuman, not being equal, being by nature, biology, created by god to be slaves. we had to fight with those stereotypes, as al knows. that's what the black is beautiful movement was about in the '60s. trying to shed all of the ways that the systems of racism made us hate ourselves. our color, our hair texture, our features. so we grew afros. you know, we maybe went a bit overboard. >> al, you had an afro, right? >> he did, oh, my gosh. >> come on now, we all remember. >> even i had an afro. i tell my students because they can't believe it. >> i had a jew-fro. >> dr. gates, let me say this. part of what probably united a lot of us was that we all faced common racism, but it deceived a lot of the public, feeling we weren't diverse. >> right. >> i think that's that's something you, i, every black in america had to deal with. i think th