in charlottesville a year ago that this is why we elected donald trump, was to protect statues like the robert e. lee statue, to protest in the way they protested, and when the president of the united states abdicates his moral leadership so decisively and so decidedly, then that set a tone for the ensuing year, and we're still living with those aftershocks. >> clarence, you get to write history in real time on a daily basis. is it possible that when we look back at 2018 part of the subplot is going to be we had both racism and activism both as concurrent growth stocks? >> that's a good way to look at it because it was quite a clash, quite a wake-up call i would say that many of us had a year ago that race relations had gotten this bad only a few years after the optimism that sprung up from barack obama's successful pain. remember that phrase post-racial society, brian? i never used it but a lot of