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[Music] welcome to the marc steiner show here on the real news i'm mark steiner and it's great to have you all with us whiteness and the power of it racism the insidious power that defines this country in our society it seems to permeate everything but what happens when you wrestle that on a personal level when you know your family not only were in slavers but took part in lynchings and who are power brokers who instituted segregation in the wake of reconstruction's demise in the uncertain future after the end of slavery well my friend and colleague boehner woods did just that in his new book inheritance an autobiography of whiteness he grew up in south carolina he's a writer whose work has appeared in the new york times the guardian many other publications and co-wrote with brandon soderbergh the book i got a monster the rise and fall of america's most corrupt police squad and he joins us now to talk about his book inheritance boehner welcome good to have you with us great to be here and great to be back he left out that i also uh worked at the real news in the past so it's happening did i leave that out well you worked at the real news i'm just kidding yeah but i'm happy to be it's great to be back in here it's good to have you yeah so let's just begin with with um the obvious question everybody asks about your cover well yeah so i cross out my byline on the the front of the book and then throughout the book on the top of the page and whenever i have control over it because uh you know i i'd been writing for a long time and realized in reporting this that my name stood above every story that i ever wrote like a confederate monument i'm reporting on black lives matter and here is a confederate monument above at baynard the baynard family in in 1860 believed that they owned about 700 something people the woods family also believed that they owned people at that time and this goes back for hundreds and hundreds of years with both of those families uh and then with with other really shameful history that we'll get into after that and so i thought there's no way that i can continue to use that name like that on the other hand it's my name and i didn't feel i could change it without continuing the cover up that made me be unaware of it anyway it would be like going into skies and sneaking out of town so instead what i did was i crossed it out as something like crime scene tape to draw a line around it as full disclosure of the crimes involved in the name and the way that they may have infected me and i also did it in using the the tools of french deconstruction...