[Billthedrill]

Cornel West is Hitler without the talent. I'm perfectly serious - with a very few substitutions his stuff reads disturbingly like Mein Kampf. The academics lap it up because they're afraid not to. I don't think his racist term applies to intimidated black people at all, I think it applies to loud, overbearing, racist bullies such as himself.

[driftless2]

No liberal has the guts to call West what he actually is... a no-talent, academic mountebank whose color and gobbledygook pronouncemnents on a variety of issues paved the way for him to acquire status and moolah well beyond his level of erudition.

He is the quintessential affirmative action hiree...perfectly worthless except to rouse the ignorati.