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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Christopher Leiden and this is open source. |
0:04.0 | Cornell West is our guest, the preacher, teacher in a tradition of black prophetic fire, as he puts it, |
0:11.0 | the line of holy anger in American history and this time on the |
0:14.9 | presidential ballot in a variety of states yours will be the first book I want to |
0:19.5 | read on this |
0:23.3 | 2024 campaign, Cornell West, because you will be recounting a moral inquiry |
0:26.4 | into the American condition, |
0:28.7 | at least as much as the ups and downs of your own candidacy. |
0:33.0 | It's just under three months now till the voting, Cornell. |
0:35.9 | Are you in it? |
0:36.7 | To the finish. |
0:38.0 | Oh, absolutely. |
0:39.7 | It's a matter of calling and vocations, |
0:41.4 | some matter of being deeply rooted in a certain conception of |
0:44.4 | integrity, not purity, and a lot of people say vanity too, but no is really |
0:48.8 | integrity it has to do with being constant and consistent in a commitment to truth and justice and love my brother |
0:56.5 | and it's all for any one of those three to gain attraction given the treacherous terrain of American culture right now, I must say. |
1:05.6 | It's not the race you entered though. It was Joe Biden that got you into it, in particular |
1:10.0 | the wars that he chose to embrace and arm and pay for in Ukraine and Israel's war on Gaza. |
1:19.3 | Joe Biden's history now, in what sense are you refining a new agenda to run against Kamala Harris? |
1:25.8 | What gets you up in the morning now? |
1:27.2 | Mm. |
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