There's been great beauty along this journey, right?

And I've been filled with hope, right?

Sometimes you do get a little hopeless and you're like, everything is just crumbling.

And to be in these communities, these campus communities, with such rich history and tradition

and mission and some of our best and brightest attending these schools, I personally am

already feeling optimistic because these kids, even though they've had to face all these

barriers and they see the world kind of crumbling around them, they've never been blinded to

the reality of what the system does to black people in particular.

Hello, welcome to Wise Is Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

We are less than two months in the midterms, lots of variables, a lot of things up in the

air.

One of the things that I've been really thinking a lot about is the kind of like political

mood of the country, like the ambiance, the vibes, if you will, which are hard to quantify.

But here's how I think of it.

I mean, 2020 was one of the strangest years in American life.

I mean, certainly in my life, like everyone inside, there were two major things, right?

There was a presidential action.

There was a once in a century pandemic and there were the largest civil rights racial justice

protests of my lifetime.

I mean, across the country in big cities and in small towns and all across in the wake

of George Floyd's murder.

That was 2020.

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