All right. Let's shift gears for just a moment here. Whenever you're ready, I'll take your cue.

Welcome to Blinking Red, a podcast dedicated to truth-telling for these uncertain times.

This is a defining moment in our country's history.

A testing time, the likes of which we have never been through before. Hello everybody, Dan Rather here, and welcome to another stellar edition of Blinking Red, a podcast to try to help you navigate these turbulent times.

Your narrator has been a few places and seen a few things,

but that does not make me an expert on anything.

I'm here simply to try to help you understand this suddenly crazy world we live in.

And for those of you keeping score,

we once again come to you from our News and Guts Command Center,

high atop New York City.

I want to talk to you today about a difficult subject, but it's a topic that's close to my heart,

and has to be on every American's mind, and that is, what the hell is going on with Donald Trump and race?

America, of course, has struggled with race for a long time.

It's a struggle I've witnessed firsthand for most of my life.

From the deeply segregated Texas of my youth to my early reporting days covering the civil

rights in the deep south, where I witness sights my eyes were not prepared for.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

For example, the clan marching through the night.

As a child, I knew of the Ku Klux Klan. Everybody did.

But it was never really on my radar, certainly not part of my life,

until, as a young reporter,

the South became my assignment, and race was the story.

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