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In reply to the discussion: Why all the hate towards Cornell West? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And the people in those crowds in Iowa and New Hampshire weren't endorsing Dr. West's use of the word. They were endorsing his human liberation message.
(question: in the Sixties, the Panthers and similar groups used that term to describe black leaders they thought were excessively moderate and compromised. Would you have condemned that as muchthen as you condemn Dr. West now?)
It sounds to me that you are mainly outraged that HRC didn't get 100% of the AA vote and that you think any AA people who preferred Bernie were race traitors. Am I totally wrong to come to that conclusion about you?
And, at this stage in the game, isn't it time to finally stop attacking Bernie on race and admit that he was never going to put racism on the backburner? The conservative AA leadership got what it wanted...majority community support for HRC-can't the smears on Bernie and race finally stop? The man never deserved them and no one would lose anything by admitting that.