Integrity, Humility, and the Death of Humanity

The Tight Rope

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Society & Culture

5 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In the second installment of our series of virtues, Cornel West and Tricia Rose dive into the true meaning of integrity. Tune in to learn why the professors consider integrity to be one of the most important virtues and why the lack of it could lead to the demise of the human race.

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Creator/EP: Jeremy Berry

EP/Host: Cornel West

EP/Host: Tricia Rose

Producers: Allie Hembrough, Ceyanna Dent, Dustin Hodge

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0:00.0	But you remember that line James Brown and there it is.
0:03.7	When he said,
0:04.1	staying in the show enough,
0:06.1	staying in the show enough.
0:08.1	Yep.
0:08.4	Staying in the show now.
0:09.6	There's another line that Luther Vandross has.
0:12.6	Once you know how,
0:15.1	he said,
0:15.5	it's a show enough thing.
0:17.5	Oh, yes.
0:17.9	That's the experience that you never forget.
0:20.6	See, that that show enough is that instance of a certain kind of integrity that makes your
0:27.3	own self-reliant.
0:29.0	It's like Emerson self-reliance, self-trust, self-belief, it's a self-confidence, not
0:36.0	self-perfection because there's a process that's undergoing.
0:39.4	But Jane said, you're staying in the show now.
0:41.8	We don't have enough folks staying in the show now, let alone black folks staying in the show
0:47.1	enough.
0:47.6	Right.
0:48.0	Because it's integrity.
0:49.6	It's commitment.
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