Apparently 80% of people in the United States say that they don't know and have never met a transgender person.

And that's a lot of the country, especially when you consider that more people say that they've seen a ghost in this country than a transgender person.

We have some work to do.

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

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 possibilities?

Well, hello everyone. Thank you for joining us on the tightrope. This is where we engage

in tough dialogues and try to keep our balance on even tougher issues. I am here with my co-host and

dear friend, Dr. Cornell West. Cornell, how are you feeling? Oh, I'll tell you, I'm fortified. I'm fortified, huh?

That's it. Indeed, indeed, indeed. How are you doing today?

I'm doing okay. You know, I'm doing all right. I feel like I'm just beginning to recover from that whole election, you know, energy. It finally feels like it's a little bit behind me.

You know, I think I have a little bit of trepidation. I feel like there's potentially some nefarious things around the corner in the political

arena that we're not yet being made privy to. What, what are you feeling? I mean, do you have any kind of

sense about how that might be going on? Well, I mean, the neo-fascism is still rather intense in terms of undercutting the election,

already trying to illegitimize the election.

But the challenge is going to be once Trump is finally pushed back exactly what Brother Biden and sister Harris are going to do.

Right.

Why they're going to fall right back into Wall Street, greed, right back in the Pentagon militarism,

right back in plain lip service to this mass incarceration system, which is a crime against humanity, or they're going to

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