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(94,520 posts)sheshe2
(83,751 posts)And his adolescent pout because Obama...
What exactly is so irritating to West about inaugural ticket-gate? It can't be a claim that the black, progressive intellectual community was unrepresented. Yale's Elizabeth Alexander was the poet that cold morning. It can't be that the "common man" was shut out because the Neighborhood Ball was reserved for the ordinary women and and men who worked to make Obama '08 possible. It must be a simple matter of jealous indignation. While I appreciate the humanness in such a reaction, it hardly counts as a prophetic critique.
Since the inaugural snub, Professor West has made his personal animosity and political criticism of the president his main public talking point. There was that hilariously bad documentary with Tavis Smiley and the rest of the Soul Patrol in 2009. There is the tiresome repetitiveness with which West invokes the name of his erstwhile Harvard nemesis Lawrence Summers as indicative of President Obamas failed economic vision. And just a few weeks ago there was the eminently watchable screaming match on MSNBC where love-the-peoplc West called Rev. Al Sharpton a mascot for the Obama administration. Add to this three year screed the current Hedges article and it looks more like a pissing match than prophesy.
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I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men Its understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation.
This comment is utter hilarity coming from Cornel West who has spent the bulk of his adulthood living in those deeply rooted, culturally rich, historically important black communities of Cambridge, MA and Princeton, NJ. And it is hard to see his claim that Obama is most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they as anything other than a classic projection of his own comfortably ensconced life at Harvard and Princeton Universities. Harvard and Princeton are not places that are particularly noted for their liberating history for black men.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obama-not-black-enough/
Lovie777
(12,257 posts)Seems like the far right and far left will cancel each other out.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)You put your right foot in
You take your right foot out
You put your right foot in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
You put your left foot in
You take your left foot out
You put your left foot in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
You put your right hand in
You take your right hand out
You put your right hand in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
You put your left hand in
You take your left hand out
You put your left hand in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
You put your whole self in
You take your whole self out
You put your whole self in
And you shake it all about
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about
https://www.kidsongs.com/lyrics/the-hokey-pokey.html
Sounds good to me:
So the Democrats are getting it from both sides . . ..
Seems like the far right and far left will cancel each other out.
We will have liberal Democrats that actually get things done.
YES!!!!!!!!!!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Teh stupid, it burns.
HUAJIAO
(2,385 posts)He couldn't run a dry cleaners.
PortTack
(32,762 posts)oasis
(49,381 posts)than it already is.
I usually copy them.
[div class="excerpt"OMG. Cornel West really went on Tim Black's radio show and said Nina Turner was "robbed" because she says she won the election day votes but Brown ran up the margins in the absentee ballots.
Remind you of anyone?
oasis
(49,381 posts)at the 2016 DNC National Convention. He gets not one ounce of respect from me.
Thanks sheshe for giving me another reason to continue my loathing of him and his ilk.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)You trash Obama, you lost me.
BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)Madder than a box of frogs.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)I remember exactly where I was when I heard them say:
I heard good old Corney and Smiley shitting on Obama saying he just wasn't black enough.
I nearly hit a tree and turned NPR off forever.
DenaliDemocrat
(1,476 posts)He doesnt even call himself a Democrat anymore
IcyPeas
(21,866 posts)Such chaos.
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)Bernie World lacks a cleansing function.
mcar
(42,307 posts)WTF is Cornel trying to prove with this shite?
imagine that.