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Cornel West: 'New Jim Crow' Increasing Under Obama
breitbart.com ^ | Aug 26,2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 08/26/2013 6:09:13 PM PDT by NoLibZone

Cornel West said that under President Barack Obama there has been an increase in what he called the "new Jim Crow" and claimed his presidency has thus been a failure.

Appearing in a Monday interview on Al Jazeera America's Talk to Al Jazeera with David Shuster, West said 2.5 million new prisoners have been incarcerated while Obama has been in office mostly "because of soft drugs" and the disparity in "crack cocaine versus regular cocaine" users. West referred to this phenomenon as the "new Jim Crow" because he said minority communities and the poor are disproportionately impacted.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: blackpresident; blacks; cornelwest; dnc4jimcrow; west
The Obama administration proves that the progressives are fake in their concerns for blacks

Blacks are the Palestinians of North America.

They are being used by the US wing of the muslim Brotherhood aka the DNC.

1 posted on 08/26/2013 6:09:13 PM PDT by NoLibZone
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To: NoLibZone

I guess just “lynching white folk and white-hispanic folk” is not enough for Black Racist Cornel West

Instead of blaming everything on race...West and his ilk need to start making Blacks accountable for their actions. Slavery has been over for 150 yrs in this country


2 posted on 08/26/2013 6:17:14 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Difference between George Zimmerman and Al Sharpton is that Sharpton woulda let honky family burn)
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To: NoLibZone

What’s a country. An idiot can get a gig a cushy gig at Princeton.


3 posted on 08/26/2013 6:21:18 PM PDT by wny
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To: NoLibZone

OK I do have some brand new strings on my tiny violin...

but Im not wearing them out on this one...


4 posted on 08/26/2013 6:24:07 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: NoLibZone

Funny...both West and Obama are part of the Racism Industrial Complex.


5 posted on 08/26/2013 6:24:30 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: NoLibZone

Stop doing/selling drugs and incarceration won’t be an issue, there, Cornel. I’da thought a college guy like you’d be able to connect those dots.


6 posted on 08/26/2013 6:26:14 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady ("A liberal... declares a policy to be a moral imperative based on his emotional reaction to it.")
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To: NoLibZone

So David Schuster found a spot at Al Jism.


7 posted on 08/26/2013 6:39:34 PM PDT by moovova
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To: NoLibZone

It’s funny how the poor can afford Cocaine and other drugs.

Yet they cannot buy food. We have to give them food stamps.


8 posted on 08/26/2013 6:43:41 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: NoLibZone
The new Jim Crow

Cornel is confused. He's conflating Jim Beam with Old Crow.

9 posted on 08/26/2013 6:52:51 PM PDT by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: wny
"idiot"

That's the way I see it. The biggest intellectual fraud of all time.

10 posted on 08/26/2013 6:57:04 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: NoLibZone

Obama’s war on black Americans continues.


11 posted on 08/26/2013 7:03:01 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: rottndog
Funny...both West and Obama are part of the Racism Industrial Complex.

Oh, yeah. West is the principal promoter of the White Privilege craze that is surging through the more stupid and illiterate of our academic/media ruling class. He's only disappointed at 0bama for not tearing the country down fast enough to suit him.

12 posted on 08/26/2013 7:08:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: NoLibZone

West is as intellectually honest as any of the far left blacks.
While I think he is somewhat off base here, ant least he has the honesty to hold Obama’s feet to the fire


13 posted on 08/26/2013 7:10:48 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: NoLibZone

theres a lot of CROW JIM going around.

That we can be certain of.


14 posted on 08/26/2013 7:16:07 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team / al-Kilab Division)
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To: windsorknot

hes confused Jim Crow...with Crow Jim, apparently.


15 posted on 08/26/2013 7:17:07 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team / al-Kilab Division)
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To: Billthedrill

What we see on the surface as going wrong (skyrocketing drug abuse and crimes) is only the symptom, not the disease.

The disease is clinging to the devil.

In a sense yes sympathy SHOULD go to these folks, but not the kind of sympathy that comes from humans. It’s the kind that comes from God, and instead of feeding them treats while they wallow in their pits, it grants them a share in God’s glory and thereby raises them out of their pits.


16 posted on 08/26/2013 7:19:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: windsorknot

I wonder if these Jim Beams are poor because they spend all their money on crack?


17 posted on 08/26/2013 7:21:57 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: rottndog
Funny...both West and Obama are part of the Racism Industrial Complex.

Actually, I don't think Obama gives a damn about the plight of black people. In fact, I would bet money that Obama despises American blacks, looks down on them as the ultimate peasants and useful idiots. He only uses the race angle to promote that which he really loves - Marxism. I bet if you left Obama in a room full of average black Americans, Obama would crap his pants. He probably craps his pants when he is alone with Michelle.
18 posted on 08/26/2013 8:11:33 PM PDT by fr_freak
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