Dr. Cornel West

Now I come from a people who have been demonized and vilified and terrorized for 250 years in the American experiment.

Definitely is to niggerize a dignified black people.

Niggerize a dignified black people.

make sure that they are intimidated, terrified, full of fear, and not able to straighten their backs up.

But thank God, the Black Freedom Movement straightens our backs up.

We're witnessing, and this is why the larger picture is important here.

We're at a, we're right on the edge, cliff, in terms of the possibility of America sustaining itself as a social experiment.

in the best sense, are just becoming an empire full of might and force.

So when you niggerize a whole country, you start treating all of your citizens the way black folk have been treated for 250 years.

So when I see the police killing these two precious folks, Sister Renee and my dear brother Alex, and I've had so many partners killed by the police growing up on the chocolate side of town, right?

What has been the response?

Thank God for Martin King.

How do we learn how to love in the face of this hatred?

How do we learn how to fight for freedom for everybody in all parts of town in the face of all of this terror?

And America now has the blues.

If you don't learn something from the best of the blues people, we're going to lose a democracy.

So this is not just about meticulous detail.

We're talking about something huge.

It does seem that we are.