the bottom line, as i see it here in washington, at the moment, alex, there is a bipartisan consensus that the poor just don t matter. and as dr. west intimated a moment ago, if you don t speak the truth about the suffering of everyday people, then that suffering gets rendered invisible. so that poor people in this country right now are at best a political calculation. at worst, a political afterthought. do you think the, you know, the occupy protesters, certainly, i think, made an impact in changing the national dialogue to one that centered more on income inequality, but is it your feeling, dr. west, that the poor are still very much left out of that conversation? that it s too much of an emphasis on the working class? absolutely. brother tavis and i just finished this wonderful poverty manifesto called the rich and the rest of us. and it s very clear like the invisible man, poor people areç invisible. we do not accent their capacities or their abilities, and yet we are movi