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Showing Original Post only (View all)If YOU have issues with Cornel West-well, what are they? [View all]
He's been attacked from the right by Eric Dyson in the New Republic now.
If you're mad at Dr. West, what are you mad about? what would you rather have seen him done or said than what he did say and do?
And would he have been able to do or say anything that mattered if he had tempered his fires and compromised on what he believes in? If so, what?
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didn't seem that way to me... I mean West called Obama the "global George Zimmerman"
OKNancy
Apr 2015
#4
It would have been better if he'd published his piece in The Progressive, or The Nation
Ken Burch
Apr 2015
#6
Thank you. That inaccurate portrayal in the OP just renders the rest of it kinda moot imo.
Number23
Apr 2015
#10
"Do these people ever get out of the white liberal bubble and get out in the world?"
Number23
Apr 2015
#21
Many black folks I know felt the same. That white people are still so inherently racist they would
Number23
Apr 2015
#23
I know.. I'm not engaging anyone who accuses Michael Eric Dyson for calling out the disingenous,
Cha
Apr 2015
#33
My main issue with him is that he uses long words when short words will do.
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2015
#3
His willingness to associates with anti-Semites like Kevin Barrett and Medea Benjamin...nt
SidDithers
Apr 2015
#15
Dyson is a self important, establishment taintlicking hack trying to get good inside track
TheKentuckian
Apr 2015
#32
My primary issue with Dr. West (that I am willing to discuss in this forum) ...
1StrongBlackMan
Apr 2015
#41