Cornel West: ‘Ferguson Signifies the End of the Age of Obama’

Mediaite ^ | 11/26/14 | Josh Feldman

[Nachum]

Professor Cornel West appeared on CNN International this afternoon to give his take on Ferguson, and said right at the outset, “Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama. It’s a very sad end. We began with tremendous hope and we end with great despair.” He went on to cite a “Jim Crow criminal justice system” that doesn’t seek justice for young black and brown people, and said adamantly there is both a race and a class war going on against that group in America right now. CNNI anchor Hala Gorani asked West why he’s “so harsh” on the

[Pelham]

I doubt that you are in any position to judge that.

New around here?

[CatherineofAragon]

Being a Christian and a realist are mutually exclusive?

Who knew. /S

[Pelham]

“In a certain respect, he’s right. Jim Crow laws were passed and perpetuated by DemocRATS. “

Not exactly accurate. Jim Crow laws existed all over the country and were passed by a variety of political parties. And not just in the South, the North had plenty of its own Jim Crow laws that rarely get mentioned.

Lincoln’s own Illinois had one of the harshest black codes in the country, blacks being in the state more than 10 days were subject to arrest. Indiana outright banned blacks from the state. Even abolitionists were split on the issue, some wanting equality with whites and others wanting to ship blacks out of the country. You can read about this forgotten history in the biography of John Brown “To Purge This Land With Blood”.

[wardaddy]

Take a minute and read red heelers posting history

Kuiper Belt meets Oort Cloud

As in waaay out there.....

[devolve]

OK - So who stopped the National Guard from being in Ferguson MO on the first night?
Could it be lovely Iranian-born Muslim Valerie Jarrett who was on the phone all night with (D-MO) Governor Nixon?

[Travis McGee]

If you can double talk jive mumbo jumbo at high speed, backed up by a rhythm section, you can lead any natives.

[Califreak]

The age of aquarius turned out to be the age of anarchy

Hopefully the age of obola will come to screeching halt soon

It hasn’t been good for anybody

[CatherineofAragon]

Good Lord. I don’t know what’s going on there, but I couldn’t stop reading out of sheer fascination.

[Ohioan]

I am directing this at those who understand the insanity of anyone apologizing for traditional American values & achievement.

While the Ferguson debacle truly exposes the progress that the far Left has made in subverting a large segment of the non-White population; and while, as some who seek a still politically "correct", in the sense of acceptable in the Main Stream Media, explanation, by blaming the financial benefits that the Al Sharptons & Jesse Jacksons wallow in;the origins of the present lunacy lie not in Negro history, but in the same crack-pot mania that surfaced in 1789, when the Jacobins (read French Ergalitarians) gained the upper hand, in a chaotic period in French HIstory.

Egalitarianism is a peculiarly neurotic form of Humanism. It combines the hubris of the Nimrods & those who built golden calves--the notion that Man can create his own god--with the Atheistic sloganeering of the Jacobin & Marxist movements. But understanding its sick roots, does not necessarily equate with understanding why it is so destructive.

Please consider the following explanations of the dynamic processes involved in the fight that we have been losing--but do not need to lose:

Blame & Envy Cocktail;
Greatest Mischief Ever Wrought;
Variations On A Demonic Theme.

The naive young would be "conservatives," whom wardaddy laments, may actually be a more serious problem than the Al Sharptons, because too many who know better continue to cater to the delusions of the naive, which prevents a more effective answer to the false--even insane--dogma.

William Flax

[Ohioan]

Booker T. Washington was indeed a very wise man. He truly understood, also, what was intellectually wrong--very wrong--with the NAACP & the destructive movement that it spawned.

Here is Washington's most famous speech: Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address.

While Booker T. Washington's influence was great, the social infra-structure of the Black community improved. When the "Civil Rights Movement" (NAACP) got the upper hand, things began a terrible 60 year unraveling. Ferguson is an example of the effect of that social unraveling.

William Flax

[Ohioan]

The "Race Grievance Industry," is simply an effort by self-seeking operatives to exploit an Egalitarian Compulsion For Uniformity. Properly analyzed, the "Industry" is exploiting its own effective achievement in undermining the social structure of the very people it claims to identify with.

See Compassion or Compulsion?.

Cornel West & Obama are both active exploiters, in this very sad context.

[PapaBear3625]

“Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama. It’s a very sad end. We began with tremendous hope and we end with great despair

He is unhappy because Obama didn't produce a Golden Age for blacks, and an end to the problems of the black underclass.

From a white perspective, 2008 opened with whites having a lot of goodwill towards blacks (most of Obama's votes came from whites), and hope for a better future where blacks would integrate smoothly and harmoniously with the white community.

Those hopes are now in ashes. Increasing numbers of whites see blacks as people who will never be satisfied, always be angry, and for whom concessions are an unproductive and futile effort.

[uncitizen]

Increasing numbers of whites see blacks as people who will never be satisfied, always be angry, and for whom concessions are an unproductive and futile effort.

BINGO

[PapaBear3625]

Hope ain’t gonna cut it As whites become a minority then people of color will have the votes to extract their pound of flesh

Hope may not cut it, but perhaps economics will.

Long before whites become a minority, the tax base (that whites are the primary payers of) will become inadequate to support underclass minority populations.

Non-black voters may soon see that.

[wardaddy]

Succinct point