Dr. Cornel West loves Bernie Sanders and hates President Obama.
This is a response to an OP currently on the Home page, an OP that highlights Dr. West's support of Bernie Sanders. That OP was posted in a closed group that not everyone can respond to and it concerns Sanders' campaign for President, so I'm posting a response here.
(Some people have already objected to my posting it under Primaries. If I had posted it in GD, they would have objected to my posting it there. The truth is, some people don't want it to be posted at all.)
Dr. West has expressed his contempt for Obama repeatedly, and in public, for years. Supposedly it all began when West didn't get the personal tickets to the inauguration that he thought he deserved.
This blowhard has called the President:
“Rockefeller Republican in blackface.”
“brown-faced Clinton.”
"Kenny G in brown skin.”
"a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs"
"a black puppet of corporate plutocrats."
"a niggerized black person."
If anyone thinks they will influence many Obama supporters to support Sanders on the basis of Cornel West's recommendation, they are deluded.
Melissa Harris-Perry and he were both on the faculty of Princeton at one time. This is what she had to say about West's campaign against the President:
What exactly is so irritating to West about inaugural ticket-gate? It can’t be a claim that the black, progressive intellectual community was unrepresented. Yale’s Elizabeth Alexander was the poet that cold morning. It can’t be that the “common man” was shut out because the Neighborhood Ball was reserved for the ordinary women and and men who worked to make Obama ’08 possible. It must be a simple matter of jealous indignation. While I appreciate the humanness in such a reaction, it hardly counts as a prophetic critique.
Since the inaugural snub, Professor West has made his personal animosity and political criticism of the president his main public talking point. There was that hilariously bad documentary with Tavis Smiley and the rest of the Soul Patrol in 2009. There is the tiresome repetitiveness with which West invokes the name of his erstwhile Harvard nemesis Lawrence Summers as indicative of President Obama’s failed economic vision. And just a few weeks ago there was the eminently watchable screaming match on MSNBC where love-the-people West called Rev. Al Sharpton a “mascot” for the Obama administration. Add to this three-year screed the current Hedges article and it looks more like a pissing match than prophecy.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/160725/cornel-west-v-barack-obama#
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First Sanders and now the Clintons!
Did you post this in the wrong forum? 
Jeez, at least own up to it 
Personally, I don't give a shite what he thinks. What a strange OP.
Did you click the link and scroll the page?
The first story, is exclusively about
professor West and Obama!
NO MENTION OF BERNIE.
Yet, your OP mentions Bernie?!?
If you do a search for BERNIE SANDERS
on the page linked in your OP
there is an article about BLM which mentions
both O'Mally and Sanders, but NOT
professor West.
Nowhere is there ANY text which
reflects your OP title...
"Dr. Cornel West loves Bernie Sanders"
You made that up.
Disingenuous, misleading, and an intentional
attempt to discredit professor West, and smear
Bernie Sanders by association.
Delete or edit is your friend.
Otherwise it looks like you are just shit stirring
Looks A LOT like the Rev Wright smears
the right-wing used against Obama???
You're not deliberately adopting right-wing tactics, are you?
Two of the mentions are in the context
of BLM heckling Omally and Sanders.
The third is an ad.
Shameless OP and you are putting
words in Professor West's mouth.
Hillary would not approve of such tactics 
Sid
OOOOOK !!! 
It's a good first step!
He can't control what his thousands of admirers say and do.
