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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Cornell West? [View all]brush
(54,017 posts)90. Nancy Greggs speaks the truth
Last edited Mon Sep 14, 2015, 01:04 PM - Edit history (1)
Those are actually Cornell West quotes.
I guess some people don't want to hear them.
Hard for me to see how partnering with someone whose personal animus drives him to use such crude terms to describe the President of the United States is going to woo votes in the AA community.
Come on! West has all the right to criticize Obama all he wants but he's an intellectual with a huge vocabulary at his command and he chooses the most vile gutter terms he can come up with.
Well, using those terms has alienated West from many in the black community and unfortunately will cost the Sanders campaign a lot of votes.
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The reason Bernie is so popular is because he says what careful politicians won't say.
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2015
#2
Please don't make this about who I "typify", jay… You should know better...
MrMickeysMom
Sep 2015
#20
Here's a link to refresh you of the long-standing animosity/jealousy West and Smiley . . .
brush
Sep 2015
#67
Lots of similarities on real issues. No bs either. Can't wait for Brother Tavis too
Catherina
Sep 2015
#5
I'm glad, like Berny... Clinton has evolved on some issues... again... like Bernie
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#39
Sanders is a democratic socialist, so is West, so how is West worse than Jeremiah Wright?
HereSince1628
Sep 2015
#14
Wright wasn't a petulant asshole who hated Obama because Obama didn't hold him in enough
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#40
We'll see. I personally think truth vs. calculation is like Hare vs. Tortoise. nt
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#50
There are other well-known, prominent AA Sanders supporters without the baggage West carries. nt
brush
Sep 2015
#56
So you're saying he should have deliberately sought out a 'cool black friend'.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Sep 2015
#82
He isn't right, he's part of the petulant and irrational expectations set on Obama including
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#43
It doesn't matter what race a person is, racist tripe like "ni^^erized" shouldn't be tolerated among
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#77
I'm starting to think they did... this was an overtly tone deaf move... like hiring trump to speak t
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#38
That's irrelevant, it's NOT ok to call people racist names even in the same race!!! Where the hell
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#74
None of that is a bunch of racist tripe like West has said, it's not OK to call people racist names
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#76
Funny how the "listening" thing only works when you agree with the message, isn't it?
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#69
From people IN the AA community!!?!??!? Or are Sanders supporters going to dismiss that too!?
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#75