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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‘We Can’t Just Shed Tears For Those On The Vanilla Side Of Town’
Yes we can, and many of us do. Let the people on the other side of town take care of their own (as if they ever would).
No fan here of Cornel West, but — in respectful disagreement with my fellow posters here — I have to say that the Professor has a point.
Even a broken clock is correct twice daily.
Hell, Rush Limbaugh said the other day that the Libs in the MSM do not care about people being killed in bad neighborhoods.
West is ratifying what Limbaugh said.
I think a lot of folks in here are giving vent to knee-jerk reactions.
West is completely correct: Almost 500 blacks killed in Chicago in 2012 — and no hue and cry in the MSM for “meaningful action on gun control.” Twenty kids in upscale CT are murdered, and it is a complete red alert.
This is a pro-life site. Lives are precious. All lives. How is West incorrect in this one limited instance?
cornell west is disgusting racist, im so sick of these negroids who are racists against white people and the media just allows them to spew hate, imagine if a white guy sad that and it had been dead black kids
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