San Francisco, CA] In a time when “diversity” and “anti-racism” are too often reduced to buzzwords, a new podcast is cutting past slogans to examine the truth beneath them. Diagnosing Whiteness, premiering Saturday, October 4, 2025, is hosted by author and scholar Dante King and Rev. Dr. Philippe “Shock” Matthews. Together, they confront whiteness and anti-Blackness as not just attitudes, but as deeply embedded legal, social, cultural, and economic systems that continue to shape and harm our world.
Diagnosing Whiteness doesn’t skirt around the edges. It interrogates the psychic, historical, and institutional roots of white nationalists, exposing how racial trauma is perpetuated across generations. Each episode draws listeners into an unflinching conversation about the architecture of “normal” that whiteness has built and sustained globally.
On Saturday, October 4, 2025, author and scholar Dante King and preacher-scholar Rev. Dr. Philippe “Shock” Matthews will premiere Diagnosing Whiteness, a bold weekly podcast series that confronts whiteness and anti-Blackness as deeply rooted systems – legal, cultural, social, and economic – not just surface-level attitudes.
With weekly episodes, storytelling, and conversations with thought leaders, the series aims to spark both disruption and healing. The goal of Diagnosing Whiteness is to move audiences beyond awareness and into action.
Learn more at www.diagnosingwhitenessandantiblackness.com.
The Diagnosing Whiteness Podcast will be available on all major platforms.
Meet the Hosts
Dante King
Author of Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis & Trauma in America, King brings a rare ability to connect legal, historical, psychological, and sociological frames. He is also the founder of Blackademics, a nonprofit advancing racial justice through education, research, and scholarship.
Rev. Dr. Philippe “Shock” Matthews
A preacher, scholar, and cultural bridge-builder, Matthews examines how belief systems – religion, morality, cultural norms – intersect with race and power. Known across social platforms as “Rev. Dr. Philippe SHOCK Matthews,” his voice has become a guide for those wrestling with faith, culture, and racial justice.
Diagnosing Whiteness delivers facts, history, and lived experience without flinching. Each episode invites listeners to be unsettled, to reckon with uncomfortable truths, and to see the structures holding racial trauma in place. It is a call to examine, to heal, and to imagine something better.
For more details, episode notes, and supporting resources, visit www.diagnosingwhitenessandantiblackness.com.
DIAGNOSING WHITENESS & ANTI-BLACKNESS: WHITE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS, AND TRAUMA IN AMERICA https://amzn.to/3H2uQWM
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Social Media links:
Facebook – @dantekingofficial
Instagram – @dantekingofficial
Twitter – @danteking2020
Sources
- Diagnosing Whiteness – Dante King Official – Overview of Dante King’s work and book.
- Podcast Launch Announcement – Facebook – Preview of the series and its aims.
- Podcast Launch Trailer – YouTube – Video announcement for the October 4th premiere.