The United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvard and princeton universitys hes written 20 books and he still has time for his new weekly podcast and its great that tight rope. Professor west thank you so much for joining us recently i was at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture and i saw the emmett till way i saw the wing that tells the story of the horrifying near genocide in tulsa in 1921 and if you can occur to me that george floyd a modern arbor Rionda Taylor could one day be a wing in a museum and we would still have everything the same today so let me just ask you bluntly is this is in Inflection Point to you or do you think that this is just
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question what is it about america that makes it number one in the world for death by gun lets get to the bottom line. Before the coronavirus hit before the Opioid Epidemic before many other invisible killers another epidemic has ravaged america for generations and thats extreme violence towards each other and an inability to bring guns under control the United States is the only country in the world that has more guns than people if you live in America Today you can buy a fast action Assault Rifle thats been Battle Tested in places like iraq and afghanistan most of the time people owning guns is not the problem honors like the hunt millions of people believe that having a gun keeps them safer and theres a line in the United States constitution and it gives people the right to possess private weapons tie those guns to human natures tendency towards violence even more intense in America Today given the heat generated by deep racial and economic divides a
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