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

of the colorblind ideology built?

No many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed the best of their past.

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

How do you envision possibility?

That was an incredible debate.

I'm here with my dear colleague Cornell West, and you are on the special evening

post-VP debate edition of the tightrope. How are you, Cornell? What's going on? How are you feeling

you there? And you're in, what time zone are you in right now, brother? Oh, I'll tell you. I'm in the,

I'm on the mothership right now, given all of this

debasement and mediocrity and the level of arrogance and heartiness and condescension coming

from Brother Pence was just so, well, just no respect for the moderator, no respect for the audience.

I mean, thank God that Sister Harris was trying to hold it up.

She had a wonderful dignity about her trying to sustain the conversation in this way.

This is not a partisan or political issue.

No.

This is person to person. This is spiritual.

This is psychological.

You just, this sense of, you can just, somebody ask you a question and you act like they're a non-entity.

You just say whatever you want to say and you keep talking, you keep talking.

You say, my God, this is where we are in this country, the level of public culture, public

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