change and with your voices and your focus you made it clear that at this moment in this election there is something happening in america election is crucial from an environmental point of view as well as from a racial point of view what do you find mostly interesting about this year's elections where i never thought i'd see  bathrooms and see it on t v i actually had to experience ever so to see the country move forward to to a point where an african american actually comes close to being president to me is amazing i just i'd that's a that's almost a trivial thing to say but i feel like i have to say in any way we've never had a african american or female candidate go as far as in the process as we have had this year i think we're also at a really interesting and crucial moment in the history of this country so you know the elections are historic for that reason to the election does go to the democrat i think we will go through a two hundred year event for our country which would be the election of a african american as our president here washington was the first black mayor of chicago and his campaign was unbelievable i mean you talk about unbridled uncensored racism some audio of a guy calling into a talk radio show when here washington was on the show during his campaign and the guy asked him says you know i hear that if you if you win the white house i mean if you win the mayor's office you're going to replace the elevators in city hall with vines  watch the daily show one of my favorite episodes in this campaign season of the daily show is indecision two thousand and eight west virginia at the good people of west virginia to speak for themselves absolutely race will be a factor in the election it's just unclear how that cuts because if you have an incredible turnout from disenfranchised communities people color communities higher than normal that's a big impact and that's a positive if on the other hand it brings out kind of some deep seated racist element of our society that still is there and it's bigger than we think it is that would be very sad very sad we know  there i mean it's there is just the question is is a bigger or smaller than we think it is and obviously our aspiration and our hope is that it's a lot smaller than we think it is young people don't think it exists that much at you know and who consuming hip hop consuming dave chapelle you know even kids who are from you know potent minnesota have an engagement with blackness i think the people in minnesota are i guess i don't know about the rest of the world are excuse me the rest of the country and even in fact maybe the rest of the world i think minnesota i think there's a general appreciation for someone's morals and that that maybe the rest of the world doesn't quite quite view the same way i'm ready for a black president i think it would be inspirational i think a lot of things would come out that hadn't been cultivated before and but i guess i can't speak to how the rest of the u s and the rest of the world will view this kind of monumental possibility if you had asked me is six months ago i would tell you no you know what i think is possible now i think in this rock obama do something very very stupid i think you get a real experience it is now what many people are seeing right now is a generational situation where people were of my generation are just having a hard time believing that it's going to happen they want it to very very badly and i think every day every day that senator obama is more successful and and things are working it just you can just feel it among that generation that's thirty years older the people in their fifty's you can just feel how they all the sudden they're going oh my gosh oh my gosh and that is so exciting you know it's not a burden for young people they have no responsibility to deliver that for us but i'll tell you you could have a lot of happy moms and dads if this generational shift happens because they it will hark them back to their youth where they will go oh my gosh we didn't quite make it but this generation did and i think that that's the thing that's going on with barack obama that i think is just so exciting i would have said if they could have been alive to see this that in my parents generation it was beyond their imagination that there would be a person of color or woman who made it that far you know our political system and you know to think about it in terms of our