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

of the 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 possibility?

Hello, everyone. Welcome to this special edition of the tightrope. I'm Tricia Rose, and I'm here with my dear friend, brilliant thinker, and freedom fighter, Dr. Cornel West.

Doc, how are you doing? How's how are you feeling tonight?

God day. Well, we're still trying to keep on pushing, as Curtis Mayfield says.

It looks like it's getting tougher and tougher, but how are you doing?

I'm doing all right.

That's a good anthem to have.

Curtis Mayfield keeps you definitely on point.

When you think your tank is empty, he's got a little something extra.

He got a little extra something.

So, yeah, this is our second watch party this week. And Monday, Cornell West and I had civil rights attorney Connie Rice, who joined us to watch

keynote speeches by Bernie Sanders and Michelle Obama.

And we had a fantastic conversation, just really wide-ranging, and her expertise is extraordinary. So those of you who

might be watching now live may want to bookmark that conversation with her. It was amazing.

Tonight, we have an amazing group of people as well. We have joined by a number of very interesting

guests, including Congressman Roe Kana, the first

vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Zephyr Teachout, a Bernie Sanders

surrogate and Fordham University Law Professor, and Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker, the

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