Washington Post: "How Cornel West Hurts Bernie Sanders"

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23. The beginning criticisms.

Are generally spot-on, except for the Blackface comment. After all, isn't Rockefeller Republican referred to old Republicans in the vein of Bob Dole and others, see: non Strom Thurmond however. In that respect the way Obama has governed is not necessary that dissimilar from those people.
As far as Wall Street, Obama has stumped like crazy for Wall Street by having shills like Timothy Geitner as Secretary Of the Treasury. There is NO way that man was an acceptable choice for the position of Treasury Secretary.
Regarding the last comment I don't know about it because I've never seen Obama meet the average Black person on the street and seen him react to them talking about racism and other subjects.
As far as Black people having issues with West calling out Obama that's on them. Did West need to use such inflammatory language to get his points across? No but who's to say if people would've paid attention as much. To be fair, Obama has gotten a pass on issues like Surveillence, drones, etc. for far longer than he should've and his race likely played a role in this. I don't mean from Congress but more from the media and especially Democrats. I remember when Mos Def defended him like crazy for far longer than he should've. As a member of the Hip-Hop community it's your responsibility to speak truth to power and Mos abdicated that obligation sadly.

edit: Oh and I forgot to mention Eric Holder on Wall Street.