We heard testimony, sworn testimony, that the Trump administration, through the CIA and with the CIA,

had taken the same kind of criminal actions against Julian Assange while he was in the Ecuadoran embassy,

that the Nixon administration, with the help of CIA assets and former CIA officials had done against me.

We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.

How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional moments of the colorblind ideology built?

No 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?

Hello everyone. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the tightrope. This is a place where we engage in tough and ever tougher issues and try to have a serious dialogue and keep our

balance. I'm Tricia Rose and I'm here with my dear friend and co-host, Dr. Cornell West.

And every week, I try to check in with Dr. West and figure out what's going on in his mind

because whatever it is is going to help us out.

So this week, what is going on, Cornell, in your mind?

What's troubling you? What's exciting you? What's,

what should we be thinking about? Well, I think it's always a positive thing, my dear sister,

to be in dialogue with somebody, you have great joy and you have great inspiration. That's what I

have once a week with you. And to be able to look for people around this country

and around the world who exemplify a kind of courage and integrity that can inspire us to keep on

keeping on in the middle of this moment in which the American Empire, all the lies and crimes

are coming back, a kind of blowback, as it were,

and for us not to be in any way overwhelmed by the lies and overwhelmed by the crimes,

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