‪Cornel West: Obama is for big business not the jobless‬...http://www.thegrio.com‬..Princeton Professor Cornel West sat down with theGrio to discuss how unemployment is affecting African-Americans./nTheGrio asked West about national unemployment trends for African-Americans. He called on President Barack Obama to implement a comprehensive jobs policy -- a program that would mirror former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, and focus primarily on creating jobs for people without a college education./n"[It's] the same way we had an investment banker policy when they were in trouble," West said of what he views as a double-standard in current economic policy. "All AIG needed was a push. So let's help push these poor people, these working people into jobs with a living wage."/nWest, who has been outspoken in both his support and criticism of Obama, said the current administration has not made poor people a priority./n"Obama has an economic team that's composed of persons who have no history whatsoever of being concerned about poor people," West said. "Obama's been doing a good job of reassuring the establishment. But there's many of us who believe the establishment is on our necks."/nThe Princeton University professor is busy promoting his new book, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. The memoir is a departure from West's previous books, where he focused primarily on issues such as race and social justice. Video from Jan., 2010.

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