American - Educator | June 2, 1953 -
I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
Cornel West
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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
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Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.
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If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes office. Then they would really need a poverty tour.
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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
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It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
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Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
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Black people have been working hard for decades.
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We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.
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