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Cornell West On Sandy Hook: ‘We Can’t Just Shed Tears For Those On The Vanilla Side Of Town’
Mediaite.com ^ | 5:30 pm, December 27th, 2012 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 12/27/2012 5:30:28 PM PST by drewh

Princeton University Professor Dr. Cornel West appeared on the Tavis Smiley radio show on Thursday where he weighed in with his thoughts on how the media and lawmakers are responding to the tragic massacre of teachers and children in Newtown, Connecticut.

West expressed his frustration over how eagerly the media demanded a conversation about gun laws after Newtown, but seems unmoved by endemic gun violence in America’s cities where the victims are primarily minorities.

“We can’t just shed tears for those on the vanilla side of town,” West said.” They are precious, but they are no less or more precious than our poor brothers and sisters on Indian reservations — who are killing each other — or be they black or brown or what have you.”

“But it’s a good thing that we now have a discussion on gun control. We need one on drone control. Not a peep, not a mumbling word when black folk get shot,” West added.

“But now, Newtown, Connecticut, vanilla side — low and behold we got a major conversation. That’s wonderful. Each life is precious, but it just upsets me when we’re so deferential.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: classless; connecticut; cornelwest; guncontrol; hate; idiot; newjersey; racism; secondamendment; tavissmiley
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To: drewh
I love how he talks about all the black victims but declines to talk about all the black PERPETRATORS. This is another liberal tactic-blacks and other minorities can only be reported as victims, they must never be reported as the perpetrators even though, the vast majority of the time, they are both.
21 posted on 12/27/2012 5:46:49 PM PST by RC one (From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
Remember back 3 weeks ago the shoplifter at Walmart got shot to death by an offduty party time employee there?

The dude's picture is out. He's black. He's a heavy weight.

That story has been dropped everywhere!

22 posted on 12/27/2012 5:49:23 PM PST by muawiyah
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>> “Not a peep, not a mumbling word when black folk get shot,” West added

Or aborted.

Turn to your “chocolate bros and sistas”, West, and ponder the continual Black support for the Leftism that’s led the Black community down the road of poverty, broken families, substance abuse, and incarceration.


23 posted on 12/27/2012 5:49:40 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: tacticalogic

Cornell and all the other race-baiters have to make everything racial or they’d have to find real jobs.


24 posted on 12/27/2012 5:49:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: drewh

Sounds like an urban problem not of my making.


25 posted on 12/27/2012 5:51:25 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: drewh

Princeton University professor.

So they award degrees in Grievance. How wonderful.


26 posted on 12/27/2012 5:52:28 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Elderly blacks in Detroit are taking a considerable toll on the young thugs who prey on them. Guess Cornell wants to leave them defenseless to prevent those senseless young deaths.


27 posted on 12/27/2012 5:57:23 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: drewh
Cornell West On Sandy Hook: ‘We Can’t Just Shed Tears For Those On The Vanilla Side Of Town’

This fiend should be nervous showing his face in public for the rest of his life.

What a lowlife, hate filled racist comment. There is no place for that in this country. He should leave it, one way or another.

28 posted on 12/27/2012 5:59:11 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: drewh

Obviously, with comments like this, he is a product of affirmative action or our education system has really gone downhill.


29 posted on 12/27/2012 6:02:09 PM PST by doc
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To: drewh

race baiter


30 posted on 12/27/2012 6:05:31 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: drewh

Hey Cornhole West, how ‘bout you ax dem dere news spouters at the alphabet networks ‘bout dem killins in Chicago and udder dummie strongholds? Dey cud be repotin sum of dat.


31 posted on 12/27/2012 6:05:34 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yo Corny, the single biggest group of violent crime victims are black, and guess who is doing the victimizing?


32 posted on 12/27/2012 6:06:26 PM PST by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: drewh

Cornell West is a sick, sick man to say something as racist as this. He suffers from CPRS.


33 posted on 12/27/2012 6:08:55 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: GraceG

“I wonder if Allen West was trying to bring the whole “Gun free Chicago” thing into the conversation”

Where did ALLEN West come into the conversation?
This a$$hole is CORNELL West, a Marxist professor!
You shouldn’t mention Allen West in the same sentence as Cornell West. In so doing, you are besmerching one of the few decent, upstanding black men in our country!


34 posted on 12/27/2012 6:11:09 PM PST by vette6387
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To: drewh

Tell it to 0bama, Cornholio!


35 posted on 12/27/2012 6:17:37 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: drewh

West is an avowed Marxist with a bad Don King hair-do. He’s the clown prince of academia with an emphasis on “clown”, i.e. the Bozo of the Left, but just not as nice as the original Bozo.

Oh, did I mention that he is also an out and out racist?

With black marxists, you get a two-fer, a commie and racial hater. And they are proud of it.

No wonder Obama and Holder run America. The great uneducated and unwashed like this combination. Yes, the Great One did bring us together, one faction in hate, and one in love of our country and Constitution, a competing Ying and Yang.

The battle is enjoined with the price of freedom at stake.

Will the haters and marxists win, and destroy us, or will the decent people of America rise up and take back our country?

Getting rid of marxist idiots in academia would be a great start. So many reds, too much tenure.


36 posted on 12/27/2012 6:27:32 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: drewh

I’m guessing the esteemed professor is ignorant to the fact that vanilla extract is actually BROWN in color which is what he was referring to, the jackass.


37 posted on 12/27/2012 6:29:22 PM PST by 23 Everest (When seconds count. The police are just 23 minutes away. 831 Bonnie)
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To: drewh

Here are the numbers of the dead from the Feral Chocolate side of town Mr. West.

http://thugreport.com/


38 posted on 12/27/2012 6:31:03 PM PST by samadams2000
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To: vette6387

D’oh, I was in a hurry when I read this...

That or I have Allen West on the brain...


39 posted on 12/27/2012 6:33:03 PM PST by GraceG
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To: drewh

I just can’t wait until I have to turn off Hannity when this ni&&er is on his program yet again.


40 posted on 12/27/2012 6:34:05 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (It is impossible to have a good faith negotiations with terrorists or any Muslim.)
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