What do you mean he got blackballed?Sad how Cornel got blackballed
He basically got reduced to doing shyt like this and Joe Rogan
Well said.You can't be remotely familiar with Cornel West and believe that his beef with Obama just came from some personal slight. Obama's entire term in office was diametrically opposed to the direction West said we needed to go. West is an avowed non-Marxist socialist, while Obama filled his administration with bankers and gave Wall Street a full pass for the financial crisis. West is strong anti-violence and anti-imperialism, while Obama quadrupled down on the drone wars. And Cornel West literally wrote the book on "Race Matters" and thought that Black issues needed to be put at the forefront of the new administration, including mass incarceration, while Obama barely touched those things while in office. Obama didn't hold police to account, he remained a stanch supporter of Israel, he supported "market forces" in virtually every place the Republicans had. Obama was the quintessential neoliberal and Cornel West can't stand neoliberals.
Hell, if you wanted to claim it was personal, you'd be better off pointing out that one of Obama's first acts in office was to choose former World Bank chief economist and US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to head the National Economic Council. Summers is the exact guy that West had his most public feud with and the reason he left Harvard.
No one can pretend to know anything about Cornel West, and then think he would have been the least bit happy with Barack Obama's presidency:
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama | Cornel West
Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again. Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibilitywww.theguardian.com
Trying to demean Cornel West as a "political activist" is lame. He's a philosopher, an educator, and a social commentator who speaks on politics as it is relevent to America's future. His full-time gig is as a professor and social critique first.
His critiques of Obama never veer into calling him the devil, he's very specific on the policies and attitudes of Obama's that he disagrees with. You can tell he's especially disappointed in him because he worked so hard on campaigning, and expected a lot more. But I'm not sure what's not mature about this take:
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama | Cornel West
Our hope and change candidate fell short time and time again. Obama cheerleaders who refused to make him accountable bear some responsibility
And he's "pleasant" in his personal interactions with Candace Owens because he's pleasant in his personal interactions with literally everyone. That's his personal ethic and also what he believes is most effective for changing hearts and minds. He appears on McInnes and Laura Ingraham and Joe Rogan because he's overtly engaging in a deradicalization effort, and if you read the comments on the videos you can see he's fairly effective at it. His Joe Rogan appearance is probably the best any Black anti-racist has ever done with Rogan's audience.
I mean, look at the comments on this particular debatea and see how West's approach comes off:
Those are just the comments I pulled off the top, but I scrolled through literally hundreds more and they're all the same. If you can find ONE anti-Cornell West comment in that entire thread then I commend you. He has a manner of engaging in these debates that wins people over without having to virtue-signal how much he despises them.
Your point?
Indeed. His face is a smileyhes enjoying life
Thank god I’m not as stupid as you"You sensitive Gen z fukks..."
Old breh who gets no p*ssy that he would lower himself to fukkin a c00n sellout. Thirsty ass really can't control himself enough to not smash Candace Owen's
Thank god I’m not as stupid as you
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