Posted on 10/17/2011 6:42:41 PM PDT by neverdem
Princeton academic Cornel West attended the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington on Sunday, and then nipped over to the Supreme Court, where he joined 18 other members of Occupy Wall Street subsidiary October 2011 / Stop the Machine in getting arrested when they refused to obey police orders to clear the area.
West is a fitfully amusing example of self-righteous academic incoherence, who can be counted on to produce memorable sound bites. He recently told black presidential candidate Herman Cain to get off the symbolic crack pipe because Cain is insufficiently cowed by the menace of institutional racism. He also thinks Barack Obama is a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats who has a certain fear of free black men. Hes a smooth fit for the blind populist, collectivist rage of the OWS crowd.
What was he doing on the steps of the Supreme Court? The October 2011 website explains:
The October2011.org Movement that is occupying Freedom Plaza, led an impromptu march of 250 people up Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Supreme Court where Dr. Cornel West climbed on the steps of the Supreme Court and denounced court decisions that have produced money-based elections that empower corporations. Dr. West was holding a sign that said "Poverty is the Greatest Violence of All." He was arrested because holding political signs on the Supreme Court steps is illegal.Dr. West spoke to more than 500 people on Freedom Plaza where he said that "if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be on Freedom Plaza." West described how the struggle against, poverty, war and injustice continues and confidence that the people will succeed. He applauded the occupation as "an inclusive social revolution for all of us"...
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That was my first thought, too: “Some idiot needs to learn how to spell colonel.”
My next thought was “Who the heck is Cornel West?”
I love Cornel West. I wish he was our President. (/sarc.)
If MLK was alive today
A) he’d be in a nursing home
B) a lot of streets would still have their original names.
And
C) we’d be asking, “Cornel Who”?
LOL, When I say the headline in the sidebar, I thought someone was referring to Allen West and making the Obama “Corpse” homonymic, ebonic, spelling error.
Say=saw, I’m on the go!
I call him Black Lenin. About two years ago when I was in grad school at Virginia Tech, he got paid thousands of dollars to lecture us about how racist we were and how capitalism is bad.
You know a “white” school paying him all that money to talk for 30 minutes. How oppressive. We had one black professor in the history department that wondered if he cared about black minds so much why hasn’t he ever taught at an Historically Black college rather than Princeton and Harvard.
‘______the MLK statue made by a Chinese artist_______’
Think that MLK statue - size and style (the artist seems influenced by that Chinese [and Russian] commie stuff) - is
ridiculous - bordering on obscene.
I need to see exactly where it is located - what the area around the lump looks like, for hundreds of yards around.
For all intents and purposes he is.
hehehe, Buckwheat...
Cornell looks like Grady from Sanford and Son.
Cornel West is Under Arrest
Do not fail to take him to jail!
He makes us wary, cuz his hair be SCARY!
The situation is tense, but Cornel makes no sense!
Oh what the hell, throw his ass in a cell!
True dat!
“He be a race-baitin’ pimp
and a true Commie Symp
all flash and no cash
a typical wimp...
Word....
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