2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Cornel West endorses Green Party’s Jill Stein, calls Trump “neo-fascist catastrophe,” ... [View all]Skid Rogue
(711 posts)I know he's said a lot of stupid stuff, but I wont throw a leftist scholar under the bus simply because I think he's totally wrong. Ya know, we're human beings, we get stuff totally wrong all the time.
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
― Cornel West
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.
― Cornel West
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial
heights of our silence.
― Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader
He's not my enemy... he's just wrong about Jill Stien