Princeton professor and Black Nationalist, Cornel West has no respect for Obama. He called Obama a Black puppet of more powerful forces. He’s actually right about Obama being a puppet. The problem is he’s doing his analysis from a racialist angle.
Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and leading black intellectual, is harshly criticizing President Obama, a candidate he once supported but now calls “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”
West, a former Harvard University professor, said during an interview with the website Truthdig posted yesterday that the president has not been true to his race.
“I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men,” West said. “It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white…When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening.”
All I have to say is wow! Professor West is correct in his assessment of Barack Hussein Obama, but for the wrong reasons. Obama is nothing but a puppet and his black identity was an adopted one done for political reasons. That said, Cornel West is a vile nasty individual who deserves nothing but scorn. A broken clock is right twice a day.
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