Obama Has Lost Cornel West

Princeton professor and famed black intellectual Cornel West has long been a supporter of President Barack Obama, but he’s recently changed his tune.
In an interview last week, he suggested that Obama has sold out and become “a puppet” of powerful interests, merely promising change and not delivering.

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And the man’s an optimist…

West warned that this would thrust the U.S. into a “democratic awakening” the likes of which the nation had not seen in decades.

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Amid a very heated discussion of whether President Obama is doing enough for black people in America, he called the president “another black mascot” of “Wall Street oligarchs.” This made civil rights activist Al Sharpton extremely unhappy and the discussion essentially disintegrated from there.

There’s a video at that link, in which, if you can sort out the cross-ranting, West complains to Sharpton that Obama doesn’t say a word about the fact that black men are routinely stopped and frisked when he goes to New York, but that “if it was bankers getting frisked, he’d say something.”