We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.

How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional momentum

that colorblind ideology built?

So many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed

in the best of their past.

What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given?

How do you envision possibilities?

Welcome everybody.

Good to see you here. I'm Tricia Rose, and you're on the tightrope,

and we're here with my dear friend and colleague and co-host, Dr. Cornell West. And we're going to

chat for a little bit, giving a part two kind of update slash closure to the situation at Harvard.

You know, some things have transpired since then, and we thought some of you

might be interested in hearing from it and to have Cornell talk about where things stand now.

Cornell, it's good to see you, as always, my dear. It's always a blessing to be in conversation with

you, and I know you are as strong as ever. It's a beautiful thing. I'm hanging on.

I don't know about that, but I'm hanging in there.

I'm trying to stay up on the good foot, you know.

So, you know, we have a lot of friends, colleagues, you know, critics, you know, official people

who are interested in what may have happened since the last update on the tightrope.

And so I wanted to invite you to share sort of, you know, where things went.

I think what the faculty responded in certain ways.

And then what sort of transpired after our last conversation?

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