DID CORNELL WEST HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WITH OBAMA?

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Friday, May 27, 2011
The President, Congress, Senators and Wall Street: The True Sodomites
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Many found that Dr. West statements regarding President Obama as a personal attack. In some accords they were but in other I do not think so and in fact would wager that if he had not used the descriptor black his statements would have accurately described every President since `1980 and nearly every politician within the beltway. West described Obama as being a "black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats."
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Friday, May 20, 2011
West-Obama Narrative: Shows all Wrong with Black Academy and African Studies
I have always wondered what was the importance and utility of Africana Studies Departments around the Nation, as well the utility of a doctorate in such a field. Over recent weeks I have come to the personal conclusion that there value in the grand scope of collective community betterment is miniscule. This has been personified in recent weeks through the unmerited recapitulation of what some may call the West-Obama narrative.
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