Cornel West lashes out at civil rights icons after Bernie Sanders suffers resounding South Carolina

[comradebillyboy]

Defeat

Cornel West told Vice News last week that he feared many of Clinton’s most prominent African-American supporters had lost their way. The vocal Sanders supporter singled out Congressmen John Lewis and Jim Clyburn repeatedly.

“There’s no doubt that the great John Lewis of 50 years ago is different than the John Lewis today,” West asserted. “He’s my brother. I love him, I respect his personhood, but there’s no doubt he’s gone from a high moment of Martin Luther King-like struggle to now [a] neoliberal politician in a system that is characterized more and more by legalized bribery and normalized corruption.

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/29/cornel_west_lashes_out_at_civil_rights_icons_after_bernie_sanders_suffers_resounding_south_carolina_defeat/

[kjones]

1. Eww...nt

[SunSeeker]

2. Disgusting.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Why BS chose this bomb thrower as a surrogate, I'll never know. He couldn't have chosen a more....

polarizing & embarrassing figure than Dr. West. I actually think he has lost it, and I hope he finds the help he obviously needs.

[Historic NY]

8. +1

[BlueMTexpat]

4. Cornel seems to have lost

his own way.

He is certainly free to support the candidate of his choice. He is not, IMO, free to criticize ANY AA civil rights icon - especially John Lewis - simply because that person has not felt the Bern.

[UtahLib]

5. Speaks more to his bitterness than anything else. Very sad. nt

[otohara]

6. He Always Lashing Out

“Something irrational is going on,” Dyson said, later adding, “It was the nastiness of the tone. The unprincipled assault. There’s a difference between that and ad hominem.”

West’s ever personal turn has “obscured the sometimes powerful and sometimes luminous and other times legitimate critique” he may have, according to Dyson.

“But when you weight it down under the burden of extraordinary, personal bitterness, it just wipes away all the good stuff that you might say and makes us question what it is about the motivation for your criticism in the long run,” he said.

Dyson is talking about both West’s critique of Obama and of the scholar’s attacks on Dyson and his peers, both older and younger, primarily Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. West has called them all traitors of sorts, liars and opportunists who choose to toe the Obama administration line. This despite the fact that all have been critical of President Obama at one point or another but have couched their criticism with respect for both the office and the place President Obama holds in the hearts of many African Americans.

West, who has compared himself to slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., has called them “false prophets,” leading with the idea that his voice is the only one ringing with any truth http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2015/04/michael_eric_dyson_tells_the_root_about_his_split_with_mentor_cornel_west.html

[sheshe2]

13. This part makes me ill, otohara.

How sad.

Dyson is talking about both West’s critique of Obama and of the scholar’s attacks on Dyson and his peers, both older and younger, primarily Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. West has called them all traitors of sorts, liars and opportunists who choose to toe the Obama administration line. This despite the fact that all have been critical of President Obama at one point or another but have couched their criticism with respect for both the office and the place President Obama holds in the hearts of many African Americans.

[otohara]

23. Word

I get tired of his brother this, sister that - then the horns come out!

[Tommy2Tone]

7. Yes because to West Lewis and Clyburn have to be insane

and calling them neo liberals is about a cheap a shot this cheap shot asshole has ever given.

[Thinkingabout]

9. West made his opinion, the others aee making their decisions also.

His statement of how the same ones he speaks of having lost their way and the one talking has lost his way, he needs a rest button.

[Haveadream]

10. Worst surrogates ever

He did not just say that about Lewis and Clyburn! Way to make yourself look like a fool, Cornel. I guess he is going for his usual "scorched earth" strategy because he isn't getting enough attention. The only way he maintains relevance is by attacking those who have succeeded where he has failed. That pattern fools no one and is exactly why he is held in such low regard.

I have noticed a trend with some of Bernie's "fringe" surrogates. More than a few of them seem to be exploiting the moment for their own aggrandizement. I cringe when so many of them take advantage of his campaign and don't care whether they hurt him or a progressive message in the process. Hillary is my first choice but it helps none of us when our Democratic candidates are reduced to the level of these clowns.

[Cha]

26. Well said, Haveadream.. thank you!

[dreamnightwind]

11. Excellent, Cornel gets it and always has - eom

[sheshe2]

12. You are in the Hillary Group

Please close the door quietly on the way out.

[shenmue]

15. Bzzzt, thanks for playing

[dreamnightwind]

16. Bzzzt yourself! - eom

[sheshe2]

18. Unless you are asking to be blocked from this group...

I suggest you delete your posts. I asked you politely to leave, yet you are back.

[Cha]

28. You're done.

[sheshe2]

30. Thanks....

I was trying to be nice to them tonight.

Sigh.

[Cha]

31. I'm like

zero tolerance. the opposite of you.

Too many have taken advantage.. they do it once.

[Cha]

27. Cornel gets nothing. He's just made a fool of himself. again.

[johnp3907]

29. Welcome to "fool" ignore ~ emo.

[sheshe2]

14. He is so full of misguided anger.

A jealous old man.

[72DejaVu]

17. If you don't hear from me for a bit

I'll be busy booking Cornel with speaking engagements in Detroit and Philadelphia and Chicago...

[sheshe2]

19. Ha!

Please don't forget Ohio.

[72DejaVu]

20. Look out Cleveland!

Here comes Cornel!

[sheshe2]

22. Bwahahahahahhah

He is just a game changer.

[Cha]

25. Ha! Get him down to Florida! Hell, book him in Minneapolis!

[mcar]

21. Oh FFS!

[Cha]

24. Ha! Cornel West bites himself again! That guy should take a long long look in the mirror

and ask.. "Now just who has lost their way?"

And, remember to reflect on all those racist nasty names you called President Obama, Cornel. And, do realize how popular the President is.. And, the majority want the next President to carry on his policies.

The polls showed that in South Carolina





Thorough analysis of the SC primary demographics.

Black men 24%
Clinton 82%
Sanders 18%

Black women 37%
Clinton 89%
Sanders 11%

Historic NY http://www.democraticunderground.com/110758788

[Frances]

32. My hometown newspaper in southwestern Alabama

just endorsed Clinton for the Democratic primary. The editor said that he knows people hate Clinton just as much as they hate Obama. By that, he meant white people. Because so many white people in Alabama and other southern states have been so negative about Obama and Hillary, POC are pushing back and supporting Hillary. I believe that they think that not voting for Clinton would be sending the message that they don't support Obama.