A conversation with Dr. Cornel West

[Mari333]

'Kathleen Wells: So he’s one person, he’s the President…

Dr. Cornel West: He’s not one person, he’s the President who chooses an economic team that has put Wall Street and banks at the center of their project and job creation as an afterthought — the homes of ordinary people as an afterthought. Then he’s got a foreign policy team that he chooses, and he chooses to be a war President and escalating the war, not just in Afghanistan, but escalating those lethal drones in Pakistan. You see what I mean?

You know what part of the problem is, Sister Kathleen? That Obama has a team that understands the black agenda to be a narrow, parochial, provincial slice of America that he can assume he always has because he’s a black President. They don’t understand what black history is all about, which is that the black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation...'
















http://www.race-talk.org/?p=2981&all=1

I do like Dr West!

[QC]

1. Professor West is one of the most compelling progressive voices in America.

I shudder to think how he is about to get trashed here, though.

[eShirl]

5. His voice is needed and appreciated.

[jonnyblitz]

2. K & R. nt

[notadmblnd]

3. I like Dr. West too

I think one of the things that people forget about Obama is that he is only black on the outside. They forget that he's half white and that his major influences growing up were white influences. He didn't suffer from poverty and had opportunities open to him that aren't to this day available to most blacks. No, I really don't see where he would understand or identify with the black agenda in this country.

[RufusTFirefly]

4. K and R for the great Dr. West! n/t