RepublicanInBlackface Cornel West Princeton prof on Obama

1813   11 years ago
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1813   11 years ago
"In a recent interview on Democracy Now!, ex-Princeton professor and frequent Obama critic Dr. Cornel West lashed out against the president as well as pundits Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry and Rev. Al Sharpton./nWest called Obama a "Rockefeller Republican in blackface" and said Dyson, Harris-Perry and Sharpton were all "for sale."/nWest, along with TV personality Tavis Smiley, has been one of President Barack Obama's loudest and harshest African-American critics. Although West endorsed and campaigned for Obama during the 2008 campaign, he has since complained that the first black president turned his back on impoverished Americans."/nCenk Uygur and Jayar Jackson discuss West's comments and racial attitudes toward Obama in general. Is there a way he should act as both the president and a leader for the black community? How would he manage that?/n*Read more from The Grio:
http://thegrio.com/2012/11/12/cornel-west-calls-obama-a-republican-in-blackface/
View the original video from Democracy Now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EnCOutrlRRQ
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