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The Tight Rope

Rev. Barber (Pt.2) - Building on the Legacy of MLK

The Tight Rope

SpkerBox Media

Society & Culture

5605 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0

If in the first 50 to 100 days, people don't see real practical change that addresses the pain of poverty and health care,

0:11.2

if we don't see a real competent, just COVID relief, we run the danger of people getting to the part of Lorraine Hansberry's wisdom, and that is

0:23.6

what happens to a raisin and design.

0:27.9

We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.

0:35.3

How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional momentum, the

0:39.5

colorblind ideology built?

0:42.0

So many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed

0:47.7

in the best of their past.

0:49.6

What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given?

0:53.8

How do you envision possibilities?

0:58.7

Hello, everyone.

1:00.4

Welcome to the tightrope, where we love to have a serious and love-infused conversation

1:05.4

and try to keep our balance on tough issues.

1:08.6

And in keeping with these themes, we have a part two of our fabulous

1:12.3

conversation with Reverend Barber. We're looking forward to hearing your feedback on it, but Dr. West

1:18.5

and I, we had a fantastic time. So enjoy.

1:25.9

It's the story of a very precious and fragile democratic experiment on the road to self-destruction.

1:37.0

On to organize greed and morally blind to institutionalize contempt and hatred that disempowers. And then the question

1:48.1

becomes, though, and I'm glad you talked about both parties in this regard, because we don't

1:52.3

view them as identical, but neither one is hitting the depths of the suffering that you're talking

1:59.0

about. How do we get people, you and sister Thea Harris,

2:03.6

and thank God for her magnificent work as well, how do you get the third reconstruction? I'm

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