Michael Steele

So the words, not so much.

Seen it happen up close and personal many, many times.

And what was frightening, the other piece of this, Janae, about this video and also about what has led up to this moment where the president talks about promoting his election conspiracies.

You see this as, you know, at least I do, as an admission that his plan is to nationalize elections.

It is no longer tacit.

It is not benign.

It is real.

I don't know how many different ways we can tell people they come in for the 2026 election, y'all.

Come on now.

And so the NAACP, the Legal Defense Fund, the work that a lot of groups out there are doing, talk a little bit about what the coordination has to be in the face of this full frontal, you know, forward motion towards taking the election, because they don't think they can be stopped at this point.

Stephen Miller, on down.

They all believe this is within their grasp.

So, Eddie, on that point, I take to heart what Janae just said, but here's where I land.

Um...

I don't know if folks are ready to do that because they have largely been complicit in the whitewashing of the black American story in this country.

The stripping down of monuments and the storylines, what we saw happen, see happening at national parks,

We can't talk about the racism that is in the bloodstream.

We can't talk about the Jim Crow era.

We can't show the results of that.

So how do we turn this corner right now when that part of that narrative, which helps to inform, educate, and to move us forward, is not a part of the conversation?