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In reply to the discussion: If YOU have issues with Cornel West-well, what are they? [View all]Cha
(297,188 posts)38. Wow.. I join the other posters in saying.. Well Done, mythology!
"He wasn't attacked from the right by Dyson. He wasn't actually attacked on political grounds at all. It's not about positions on should we increase funds going to majority minority schools, or how can we get more blacks to graduate college, or reduce the unemployment rate of blacks, or reduce income inequality on racial lines or any of a myriad of actually political positions.
"He was attacked for becoming a sanctimonious self-aggrandizing ass who lost his way and descended into self-parody. Once West was reduced to using racial insults, he lost any actual claim to morality. Once West began to believe his own hype, he let himself become more important than what he claimed to believe in."
Too bad that has to be explained on DU.
"He was attacked for becoming a sanctimonious self-aggrandizing ass who lost his way and descended into self-parody. Once West was reduced to using racial insults, he lost any actual claim to morality. Once West began to believe his own hype, he let himself become more important than what he claimed to believe in."
Too bad that has to be explained on DU.
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didn't seem that way to me... I mean West called Obama the "global George Zimmerman"
OKNancy
Apr 2015
#4
It would have been better if he'd published his piece in The Progressive, or The Nation
Ken Burch
Apr 2015
#6
Thank you. That inaccurate portrayal in the OP just renders the rest of it kinda moot imo.
Number23
Apr 2015
#10
"Do these people ever get out of the white liberal bubble and get out in the world?"
Number23
Apr 2015
#21
Many black folks I know felt the same. That white people are still so inherently racist they would
Number23
Apr 2015
#23
I know.. I'm not engaging anyone who accuses Michael Eric Dyson for calling out the disingenous,
Cha
Apr 2015
#33
My main issue with him is that he uses long words when short words will do.
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2015
#3
His willingness to associates with anti-Semites like Kevin Barrett and Medea Benjamin...nt
SidDithers
Apr 2015
#15
Dyson is a self important, establishment taintlicking hack trying to get good inside track
TheKentuckian
Apr 2015
#32
My primary issue with Dr. West (that I am willing to discuss in this forum) ...
1StrongBlackMan
Apr 2015
#41