Well at least he’s right about the Democratic Party.
Need I go on?
Wait - I thought the riots were about a cop killing a black man?
Now you’re telling me it’s failed capitalism because the protesters are looting the NCAA hall of fame and stealing sports paraphernalia?
He got that part right. The only change they've brought about is for the worst.
West is a buffoon and pimps off liberal guilt!
I don't think the facts are all in, and people seem to have different views, but obviously the rabble-rousers believe that a bad cop killed a guy who was handcuffed.
And this is evidence of a failed capitalist economy, how, exactly?
Or is Cornel West just really talking word salad as usual? Can we bring in the patriarchy? Hegemony? Maxian praxis? Any other super cool words?
Spot on. West is arguing that there can be no reasonable unifying consensus and that ultimately armed separatism is necessary in a “multi racial” society.
Come out of your delusion, Cornel. What’s failed is Marxism.
Just goes to show how much a doctorate is worth.
The opposite of the America of the founders is irrationalism, emotionalism, altruism, collectivism, statism, socialism,and force. But that is the utopia of lefturd loons.
Hey Cornhole West: move to Liberia and engage your “social experiment”.
The Democrat side failed not the country.
History shows us where things go next.
Khmer Rouge
Stalin
Idi Amin
Hitler
Mussolini
Everyone of these events-people destroyed their Country.
We are looking at the potential destruction of the USA...run and paid for by China.
All because the GOP-e decided the best strategy was to do Dem-Lite and attack the Conservative Base.
West is correct in asserting that America faces a spiritual crisis, one that requires "real nourishment for soul, for meaning, for purpose." He is confused in thinking this is driven primarily by a market economy; it is driven mostly by the turn away from faith and family, most acutely by the sexual revolution and the debasement of education and the popular culture.
West's confusion then leads him into fatal error. He thinks the solution is a nonviolent revolution, "... and by revolution what I mean is the democratic sharing of power, resources, wealth and respect."
We've been down that road too many times to count. You can talk all you like about "democratic" sharing of resources, wealth and respect," but it all begins with seizing power. The revolutionaries make their revolution and become a new ruling class that has no intention of relinquishing power. Disparities of resources and wealth probably become greater than ever, because the revolution was waged against wealth producers in the private sector. Downward levelling ends with the wealth as well as the power concentrated in the hands of the political class, and with an ever larger class of permanent dependents as clients of the political class. As for respect: that is earned by each individual. It has substance only in the eyes of the each individual himself, his family, friends, and peers. Government cannot confer respect. Government only generates empty slogans. Which is what the left does.
West is an avowed Marxist, in his youth, he admired the sincere black militancy of Malcolm X, the defiant rage of the Black Panther Party, and the livid black theology of James H. Cone. And this is the type of guy’s that are teaching in our universities, colleges, and high schools today.Does not bode well for the USA.
Ok...read this.
He is calling for a revolution in both the democrat party and against our government. He is laying it at the feet of the liberal Bernie supporters to step up and orchestrate the revolution.
After Harvard dumped him he moved to Princeton.
He still wants to be a rapper I see.
In just over two hundred years we have come from a virgin wilderness to the most powerful and prosperous nation in the world's history, with a standard of living even for those in society-defined poverty that was undreamt of even fifty years ago. But yeah, to the learned professor it's a failed social experiment and a failed capitalist economy. What a fraud this hustler is.