If all you're going to be is just courageous, then you're going to run out of gas.

Right.

So you had to have a life focused on virtues, and those virtues have to be able to be connected

in such a way that you can be fortified long enough in order to fructify,

in order for your deeds and your actions to leave a little heaven behind.

And leaving heaven behind means creating hell in the name of those who suffer.

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

that 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, everybody.

Welcome to the tightrope where we take on tough issues, try to keep our balance,

and always infuse our meaning and conversation with love and justice as much as we can.

I'm here with my dear friend and amazing co-host, Dr. Cornell West.

Cornell, how are you doing today?

Oh, it's always a blessing and a joy to be in dialogue with you, my dear sister, Tricia.

I'll tell you, 2020, we survived it, hanging out on the tightrope.

That's how I feel.

Oh, indeed. What a year, though, but it's a blessing to make it through.

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