- Matt Walsh: That confuses me too, cuz' I don't wanna mansplain.. Or whitesplain..
- Robin DiAngelo: Yeah, okey.
- Matt Walsh: What is? Maybe that's an important..
- Robin DiAngelo: Yeah?
- Matt Walsh: ..Segway. What is mansplain?
- Robin DiAngelo: Well it would be you, explaining to me either why, what you just did wasn't sexism. Or explaining..
- Matt Walsh: [interrupts] I don't think that's what it is, I think mansplain is to make an assumption. To say something in an assuming way.
- Matt Walsh: I want you think back to a racist moment in your life, just something that you remember you did or said. You wish you could take it back. But how does the healing start if were not willing to admit and talk about it? I'll give you a racist moment of mine from two months ago. And I'll tell you exactly what happened. I was at a traffic light in my car. I see a black man - man of color - appears to be walking up to my car. What'd I do? I check to make sure the doors are locked. And immediately I thought, I hope he didn't hear that little click sound. Why did I do that? I thought he might be trying to carjack me. Unconscious bias. Now in this case the guy behind me did get carjacked... but does that mean that the assumption was fair?
- Bookseller: Thank you for calling the Boulder Bookstore. How can I help you?
- Matt Walsh: Hi, I was just in the other day and I saw a certain book that, uh, I wasn't ready to read at the time, but... I think I'm ready. I wanted to see if you guys still have it in stock.
- Bookseller: Yeah, what was the title?
- Matt Walsh: Uh... It star- So, it starts with an "n"... um... I don't remember the... I don't remember the author.
- Bookseller: Um...
- Matt Walsh: It... It's...
- Bookseller: You... You don't know the title of the book either?
- Matt Walsh: Well, it... It's, uh... 'Cause it's got... It's kind... It's kind of... It starts with an "n" and there's kind of, uh, well, it's... there's... it's like there's kind... There's a vowel. There's consonants. There's a vowel. Um, it... it's a cert- It's one word.
- Bookseller: I reall- I don't know how look the book up without the title or the author.
- Matt Walsh: Well, it's got kind of... so it starts with an "n" and then it's got kind of sort of... it's got an "i" there and it... it's...
- Bookseller: I guess... I mean, we've got thousands of books so I don't really know how to look it up just knowing the two first two letters.
- Matt Walsh: It's "N-i-", there's the... it's a... a "g" is in there and there's another one.
- Bookseller: Let me put you on a brief hold and go check.
- [Hold music plays for a minute]
- Bookseller: Thanks for holding. Um, I'm not seeing anything. I mean maybe try to think of the title if you can and call back.
- Matt Walsh: Well, no... it's... No, I know... Sorry, sorry. I know the title. I just can't say the title, and I...
- Bookseller: Okay.
- Matt Walsh: I don't know. I don't think you can say it either. So I don't... it's a very... it's a triggering title. Uh, it actually rhymes with "trigger", actually. And, uh, so.. But that's what I was wondering, if it was there.
- Bookseller: Um... I mean I didn't see it when i just went and looked.
- Matt Walsh: Okay. But you know what I'm talking about?
- Bookseller: Yeah.
- Matt Walsh: It's... It's that book.
- Bookseller: Yeah.
- Matt Walsh: Okay.
- Bookseller: Okay, have a good day.
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