Black studies scholar likens Harvard chief to Sharon

Reuters, Israel ^ | 4-16-02

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Cornel West is a racist.

[onedoug]

If West means that Summers got rid of his particular "palestinian" problem, he's right.

[Hibernius Druid]

Shame on Princeton for picking up this incendiary racist.

[SteamshipTime]

Worse. He's a superficial idiot who doesn't know what he doesn't know.

David Horowitz has thoroughly exposed West's utter lack of any intellectual rigor.

[mgc1122]

Isn't Harvard also making perfessers (gasp!) actually teach, spend time in classrooms and the like? Oh the humanity ! LOL!

[KC_Conspirator]

Yes he is.

[AppyPappy]

Wonderful. The liberals are eating each other.

[Republicus2001]

Cornell better apologize to Sharon - being compared to a Clintonista - well thats going a little too far IMHO

[Tijeras_Slim]

a strong black studies program

As opposed to?

[Lee'sGhost]

"Then Summers must be a good guy who doesn't take any sh/t. "

My thought exactly. What a nice compliment -- and the dunderhead doesn't even know it.

On the flip side, however, given that it was supposed to be an insult, doesn't the comment constitute hate speech? Tsk, tsk, tsk. What will Princeton do now that they know they've hired a racist? What a quandry.

[jonatron]

If Summers be a Sharon...
...Then Cornell West must be a "intellectual" Terrorist!

[Steve_Seattle]

Cornel West is the Lumpy Rutherford of American education.

[SuziQ]

Hey the fact that Harvard finally let this guy go raises my esteem for the place!

[Steve_Seattle]

"West's departure from Harvard . . . was a new blow for Summers."

Sounds like good riddance to me.

[Lee'sGhost]

Ooops! Sorry. I should have done </sarcasm>.

[mrustow]

Worse. He's a superficial idiot who doesn't know what he doesn't know.

David Horowitz has thoroughly exposed West's utter lack of any intellectual rigor.

With all due respect to Horowitz, the New Republic's Leon Wieseltier beat him to the punch.