Cornel West talks African-American support for Hillary Clinton

This is worth a read… Cornel West told Vice News last week that he feared many of Clinton’s most prominent African-American supporters had lost their way. The vocal Sanders supporter singled out Congressmen John Lewis and Jim Clyburn repeatedly. “There’s no doubt that the great John Lewis of 50 years…

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Let’s get real – President Obama’s not a progressive

Earlier today I shared an interview with Cornel West in which he accused President Barack Obama of posing as a progressive, only to turn out being something decidedly not progressive. In response to my original post, a couple of folks took to Twitter to condemn West’s comments while defending President…

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Cornel West: Obama posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit

In a recent interview with Thomas Frank of Salon, professor Cornel West shared his belief that President Barack Obama posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit who was more attuned to Wall Street than main street and who not only continued the national security policies of his…

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