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Cornel West calls Obama response to shootings 'weak'
The Hill ^ | July 9, 2016 | Jessie Hellmann

Posted on 07/10/2016 8:54:12 PM PDT by Enchante

Activist Cornel West says he was disappointed in President Obama's response to this week's shootings in of black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana.

"I thought it was weak," West said, according to The Washington Post. "He's always got to explain to white America how black people are feeling. Black people don't feel as if we're being treated unequally — it's a fact that we're being treated unequally. He sort of always has to serve in this translating role. That's how he rolls, but that's not how I roll."

West said while Obama called Thursday's attacks on Dallas police officers "a vicious and despicable act," he would not not use those exact words to describe police-involved killings in general.

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Not surprisingly, Cornel West wants Obama to be even more of a race hustler..... for race pimps like Cornel West and Al Sharpton, Obama is much too conciliatory toward "white America"....
1 posted on 07/10/2016 8:54:12 PM PDT by Enchante
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I’d say Obama is “weak” but not in the ways and for the reasons that Cornel West thinks so......


2 posted on 07/10/2016 8:55:09 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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....and Jessie wanted to de-nut him


3 posted on 07/10/2016 8:58:48 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Basically Cornell is pretty much calling Obama an “Oreo.”


4 posted on 07/10/2016 9:00:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Here we have it.

The Left thinks we don’t back black racist cop killers nearly enough.


5 posted on 07/10/2016 9:02:49 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Enchante

Obama is in agreement with Sharpton, West, the BLM movement, etc., but he still needs to conceal his agenda to some extent. He needs to get Hillary elected to continue the Alinskyite revolution, and being too open about the agenda might cause some of the low information voters to catch on at least to what is going on.


6 posted on 07/10/2016 9:30:36 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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He was looking for something more like the Hutus vs the Tutsi in Rwanda.


7 posted on 07/10/2016 10:06:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Cornell ‘Son Of Blacula’ West is an angry little man.


8 posted on 07/11/2016 2:24:14 AM PDT by pawpawrick (I had a life once but my job ate it)
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To: Enchante

Activist? How does one become an activist?


9 posted on 07/11/2016 2:32:31 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Weak, convoluted, and full of inconsistencies.


10 posted on 07/11/2016 3:57:49 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Enchante

Black Lives Matter apparently does not offer a dental plan.


11 posted on 07/11/2016 5:46:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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