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In reply to the discussion: Any thoughts why Cornel West always finds it necessary to refer to the color of the Presidents skin [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)His attacks are projection at the finest - as he's a guy whose entire career has been isolated from the true civil rights movement. West grew up to well-to-do parents (his father was a defense contractor) and has spent his entire life living an affluent lifestyle. When he's dead, 100 years from now, no one will remember him or link him to anything substantive with the civil rights fight. It burns him up inside to know he's marginalized by the likes of guys like Al Sharpton and Barack Obama - and it's not a coincidence his bloated rhetoric is used by the right to slam Obama.
Just Google West and hotair.com and see what I mean. He's being used as a black figurehead to attack the President and he'll happily do it. But the irony here, or maybe it's hypocrisy, is that West attacks Obama for not advancing this or that and, in the end, Obama, as a community organizer, did more on the streets of Chicago than West has ever done.