Cornel West Surrogacy highlights a major problem with the Sanders' campaign's outreach strategy

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100. Before 2007, Cornel West was seldom on mainstream talk shows. For that matter, neither was

Bernie Sanders. But back to West: most people outside of black intelligensia or in academic circles did not know this guy, and he would NEVER be invited to a show like Meet the Press. Once he started vocally attacking President Obama, he's on MTP and other Sunday morning commentary shows nearly every few months. Faux News has even invited him on their programming, where he "shucks and jives" for the racists over there---all because he's anti-Obama. Now all of the sudden, those people at Faux want Cornel West on their shows all the time, simply to use a black face to attack President Obama from the left. That's what is majorly disturbing about West and why he's viewed as a joke in many black communities now. He and his friend, Tavis Smiley, though Tavis tends to be a bit tempered in his approach. Few people outside of the black community knew who Tavis Smiley was, either.

That's why so many in the black community are cynical about the white liberals that now drag Cornel West onstage and use him, too. He's been a pawn for both the Left and the Right--mostly to attack the president. Black people see right through it. So now Sanders bringing Cornel West onstage is backfiring because we all know who Cornel West is and how he rolls. And no one appreciates his attacks on the president. However we black folk may have disagreed with the president, or may be disappointed in some of his decisions and policies, we still admire and revere the president---and we are very upset at how he has been treated over the last 8 years. Hillary learned this, too, and that's why it seems that she is very careful about how she addresses issues pertaining to the president. She knows that many of us have not forgotten her campaign's racist rhetoric during the 2008 primaries, either.