when I was a law student and got that call along with other law students and lawyers that the

people's law office that we'd started just months before, that the chairman had been murdered,

come to the crib. That was a life-altering event.

We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.

How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional moment 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 possibility?

Hey everyone.

Welcome, welcome, and thanks for joining us on the tightrope.

We have a show today designed to commemorate, to think about,

and reflect on and call attention to the assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton 51 years ago this week in Chicago.

And so we want to look back on this moment and we have some great guests to do so.

I'm Tricia Rose and I'm here with my co-host and friend and colleague and mentor Cornell West.

Dr. West, how are you? How are you holding up? Oh, I tell you, I'm in good shape. I'm in very good shape

in dialogue with you and ooh. We got a dialogue with a very, very special, high quality, long distance freedom fighter just a few minutes here.

Yes, we do, we do.

And, you know, this is a real interesting moment to be thinking about the 50 years ago, really.

How do you think about this legacy,

not only of, you know, Fred Hampton,

but the Panthers in general of Black radical protest?

What, you know, how does this moment compare for you?

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