Cornel West

His field is as a pragmatist philsopher and religious studies professor, so that's where he's actually a richer writer than on cultstud where I think he's a bit of a wash -- he articulates some decent sentiment about popular culture tho it tinges even by my standards on a sort of kneejerk populism meets nationalism, but then he doesn't follow through on the analysis since its not his area.

(this q. might be better on ILE by the way)

http://www.cornelwest.com/

We mustn't forget about the pain that all our right-wing brothers and sisters across america are feeling right now.

daaaaaamn........

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121550/cornel-wests-rise-fall-our-most-exciting-black-scholar-ghost?utm_content=bufferd4fd7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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This is a well-written piece, but it is kind of hard to ascribe whole credibility to an argument that essentially reads as "I defend him up until the point that he turned on me, personally."

@jacobinmag
How Cornel West went from liberal media darling to pariah.

We live in an era in which Clinton — who proudly supported mass incarceration and the obliteration of welfare — declares that a social-democratic program of financial reform and single-payer health insurance “won’t end racism.” A recent WikiLeaks publication of internal Clinton campaign emails reveals another line they were testing out against Sanders: “Wall Street is not gunning down young African Americans or denying immigrants a path to citizenship.”

It’s a sentiment that would’ve bewildered civil rights veterans like A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr, John P. Davis, Bayard Rustin, and Lester Granger, all of whom were committed to social-democratic politics as a crucial means of putting racism on a path towards ultimate extinction. The tragedy of West isn’t that he’s “full of bitterness,” as his liberal detractors claim. It’s that the politics of West’s “black prophetic tradition,” try as he might to wield them for socialist ends, will today find their strongest, clearest articulation in the same old quest of “interpreting the drums” for a mostly white ruling class.

Earlier in the primary season, during an interview on the Real News Network, West directly called out the black elite — whom he calls “the lumpenbourgeoisie” — for abandoning “the black prophetic tradition” for “individual upward mobility” and the “formation of the black professional class.” As he put it, “Black folk for the most part became just extensions of a milquetoast neoliberal Democratic Party. But Adolph Reed and a host of others told this story many years ago. It’s becoming much more crystallized. We have to be willing to tell the truth no matter how unpopular it is.”

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/everybody-hates-cornel-west/

I thought everyone hated Cornel West for doing the Matrix movies instead of any academic work, then lambasting anyone who criticized him for trying to be famous instead of doing any work

White people doing that would just be profiled in People magazine.

I see this guy all the time. He comes into the store I work in and goes to the Starbucks I go to. Nice guy.

enjoyed the joe rogan podcast

all kinds of mayhem on fox news this week tho