During the episode, released Thursday, Winfrey, author Ibram X. Kendi and a panel of five people who read Kendi's book discussed race relations in America. At one point, they reacted to footage of Sandra Bland's arrest.
Kendi said that, in America, people are raised to associate Black people"with danger, with violence, with criminality."
Winfrey, on the other hand, recalled Maya Angelou's strategy. During one of Angelou's house parties, Winfrey said, the acclaimed writer kicked somebody out by shouting,"Be gone with you," after hearing the person tell a bigoted joke.
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