Cornel West denied tenure at Harvard. Quits with scathing resignation letter

[Budi]

6. Stop the blame game. Maybe it was some of the many things he's said.

Maybe the reason is completely on him.

Not a fan of his unpredictable self aggrandizing & divisive rhetoric.
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Good for Harvard.

From 2012 - NY Magazine Interview
https://nymag.com/news/features/cornel-west-2012-5/

MAY 4, 2012
“I Want to Be Like Jesus.”

West regards himself as a prophet more than a professor. He believes that he is called to teach God’s justice to a heedless nation. “There is a price to pay for speaking the truth,” reads the signature on e-mails coming from West’s office. “There is a bigger price for living a lie.”

So when his view of the commander-in-chief changed from adoration to disappointment, West was moved to proclaim it out loud.
He had already been lobbing rhetorical grenades in the direction of the Oval Office, calling the president [Obama] “spineless” for his failure to make poor and working people a policy priority and “milquetoast” for kowtowing to corporate interests during the economic crisis. But in an interview with Truthdig, ­published last May, West went nuclear.

He called Obama “the black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs.” And then he said he wanted to “slap him,” as the article put it, “on the side of his head.”

#Bye