Cornel West

Black people have been working hard for decades. ↗

— Cornel West

#black #decades #hard #people #working

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. ↗

— Cornel West

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I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. ↗

— Cornel West

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You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. ↗

— Cornel West

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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. ↗

— Cornel West

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Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal. ↗

— Cornel West

#betrayal #disappointment #focus #just #kind

The problem is we need much more moral content. ↗

— Cornel West

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We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people. ↗

— Cornel West

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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. ↗

— Cornel West

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We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. ↗

— Cornel West

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