4um: Dr. Cornel West pushes for Obama, 'new world order'

Title: Dr. Cornel West pushes for Obama, 'new world order'
Source: Chicago Defender
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Published: Feb 6, 2008
Author: Gillespie, Rhonda
Post Date: 2008-10-01 09:29:23 by Jethro Tull
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Dr. Cornel West pushes for Obama, 'new world order'

To hear him talk about the 'skinny guy with the funny name' who is the first African American poised to take the helm of the nation as the 44th U.S. president, you'd never know that Dr. Cornel West, initially, was skeptical of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

The Princeton University dynamo with the unmistakable persona, replete with a funky afro and distinguished black-rimmed glasses, had been invited to Chicago by Rev. Michael Pfleger to bring the gospel message Sunday at his St. Sabina mass.

But West ended up doing so much more.

From the St. Sabina pulpit, West told of a nation entombed in an era that he said is marked by a loss of sensitivity to the plight of the most vulnerable citizens.

"We have been living for 40 years in a political, moral and spiritual ice age," he told the congregation that included a number of candidates vying to take or retain office in the Super Tuesday elections.

But a melt down, a phenomenon West, 54, said he didn't think he'd witness in his lifetime, is on the horizon. The professor of Religion called for a new world order, one that would begin with the election of Obama.

He continued his ardent push for Obama, talking to a crowd of volunteers and supporters at a downtown Obama campaign office Monday.

West greeted the crowd by thanking them for "wisely choosing the right side of history."

He went on to tell the diverse gathering, "Because we're here not just to make history, we want to change history. We want not just to change history, we want to change it in a certain kind of way. And Barack Obama is the leader.. .And what we will see is a change that involves what Sly Stone calls 'everyday people.'"

But West wasn't always a staunch Obama supporter.

"Imtially I was very suspicious of my brother.. .because it looked as if, early on, he was such a darling of the mainstream media. And anybody who is a darling of the mainstream media warrants deep suspicion from me," the acclaimed author and noted academe said.

But after having a conversation with Obama that West said delved into, among other things, the Senator's regard for the plight of Black people in the U.S. and the trailblazing strides made by Negro forefathers, West was sold.

Now, like so many who have cleaved to the freshman senator's message of hope, West is one of Obama's most outspoken, prolific supporters.

"I had a chance to look more closely at his record," West said of his double-take of Obama.

He was struck by Obama's work for ex-offenders, the legislation he championed.

"That was just my ignorance. I had to learn about the brother," the Democracy Matters author said of his initial Obama assessment.

As West pointed out to the Blacks, whites, Asians, women, men, young adults and baby boomers in the campaign office, Monday, Obama's support cuts across many social, ethnic and gender divides.

In the Iowa Caucuses, a convincing number of white Americans propelled the mixedraced Harvard graduate to victory.

While women gave Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY.) a win in New Hampshire, the close race (39 percent Clinton; 37 percent Obama) showed that Obama was not a long shot.

Nevada's primary, which was a win for Clinton in voting percentage, further substantiated that Obama was the first viable Black candidate for the presidency. Obama walked away from Nevada with 13 of 25 available delegates there.

Then came the Jan. 26 South Carolina landslide defeat, furthering the Obama campaign's bite. There, Obama won with 55 percent of the vote to Clinton's 27 percent.

The Illinois senator garnered 52 percent of the non-Black vote in South Carolina, according to election data.

And following the 21-state election day Tuesday, Obama remains in a tight heat, trailing marginally in the delegate count.

Having experienced the tragedies of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, enduring the war in Iraq, and having to rebuild and restore major metropolises in the wake of the ravaging Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, West said the nation is looking for change.

"People see the country is in deep decline. People are hungry and thirsty for a hope and a uniter. And Io and behold the candidate who emerges is a Black man," West said, rousing the crowd.

Obama's message, called one of hope and unity, is credited by some with breathing life back into the Democratic Party.

A registered Independent, Wesfs support and vote for Obama is telling.

He cautioned against being pro-Obama for race sake.

"There are some people actually supporting the brother for the wrong reasons. But I'll take em," West said, only half joking.

To support OBama simply because he is Black, "well that's not a good reason," West said. "I'll take the vote and educate later."

It is not clear whether his support -of Democrats begins and ends with Obama, but it is unquestionable that West is all aboard what has become Obama's vessel of hope.

[Author Affiliation]

by Rhonda Gillespie

Defender Staff Writer

Why would anyone care what Cornel West thought about anything? I had the misfortune of seeing that looney tunes guy a time or two on TV and he is way out there.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

I certainly have no interest in what he has to say, but the elite have given him a seat at the table and he has been allowed to spread his cancerous political thoughts through academia. He's a common black racist and thug. It's always educational to know the types of people who find Obama an attractive candidate.

there's the rhetoric used to instill anger and resentment of blacks and guilt of whites. expect to see a whole lot more of this if/when obama is anointed.

james, you asked who cares what west thinks? better get used to seeing him and a plethora of his ilk if/when obama "wins."

No that excuse won't fly. Those who throw support to Obama - or McCain - are cowardly non-Americans, but it's best at least some have shown us their true colors.

"White America," he writes, "has been historically weak-willed in ensuring racial justice and has continued to resist fully accepting the ~~humanity~~ rapacity of blacks."

Used to ramble through the park
Shadowboxing in the dark
Then you came and caused a spark
That's a four-alarm fire now

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

I won't be seeing a lot of him because I don't watch the hallucination box all that much. And idiots like Cornel West and others like him are one of the main reasons why. But I take your point--a lot of people who do watch a lot of TV will get all their "education" from guys like that, at least as long as they put up with it.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

A perfect example of the soft bigotry of low expectations. If he was white, he'd be laughed at as a buffoon. Since he's black, people pretend he's an intellectual.

Obama attracts people like Cornel West and the posters at Democratic Underground. McCain/Palin attract people like Bill Kristol and the posters at Free Republic, Hannity.com, etc.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

Nice word. Is that anything like a soft cheese, say a Brie? Personally I like my bigotry hard, diamond cutting glass hard.

Minus accident of birth .. GWB, Mgr. Hardees ... McBomb, Mgr. Burger King .. (both flunked out at Hamburger U.)

The last time time I looked Cornel had surpassed and is hardly likely to move further past the Peter Principle. He's a supreme example of the the elitist limousine crowd (regardless of political stripe) that gave us feminism and race- based affirmative action.

He peaked a long time ago and is likely to stay stationary in what we whimsically call our "culture" for what's left of his lifteime (tenure anyone?). Only a Garbage Terrier like JT would dig him out of the Chicago Defender for our perusal.

Minus accident of birth .. GWB, Mgr. Hardees ... McBomb, Mgr. Burger King .. (both flunked out at Hamburger U.)

Cornel West went beyond the Peter Principle when he remembered how to tie his shoes.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

Teach Cornell West to fish and he'll try to run you out of your favorite fishing spot. Prolly best keep an eye on your tackle box, too.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot

To teach anyone anything assumes that they have the ability to grasp the subject matter. I would make no such assumption about West. I have seen him on TV a time or two and he appears to be one of the most stupid people I have ever seen. The only thing he seems to be good at is race baiting.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

Which doesn't even help the cause of the people he claims to represent. West is a destroyer, prolly wants to kill his momma.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

Barack Obama was created by his Marxist African Negro father while in the U.S. on a student visa. Barack Obama's sire copulated with and impregnated a corrupted white American whore and "fellow traveler" in 1961; he is the mulatto product of that miscegenationistic union. That is the reality.

Barack Obama is a well-documented Black nationalist, as is this the worthless nigger Harvard "doctor," Cornel West. Obama is simply more artful and practiced at masking his resentment of and militancy toward the very White people who fawned over them and lifted them up -- albeit artificially -- all their lives.

What self-respecting White man gives a shit what either of these militant Negroes has to say about anything? They need us; we do not need them. Only very lemming-like, deracinated white people, who have lost the will to survive as a unique phenotype/genotype, can elect Obama to lead them over the cliff. I'll have no part of such people.

What a first class hypocrite that Cornel West nigger "doctor" is. I see he's fallen in line and gotten aboard Obama's Nigger Express since he was talking this Uncle Tom Obama jive a year and a half ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXj3_pjTTwg Racially conscious, critically-thinking White Americans will have a choice in 2012 other than the two anti-White "lesser evils" offered up by the controlled duopolist political parties. This man called me yesterday on a separate matter, and when he told me he had just announced his candidacy for President in 2012, I couldn't help but ask his position on the impending 700 billion dollar bailout package working its way through Congress. He stated, "America must once and for all wrest control of its monetary system and economy from the grip of Jewry..." Wow! An honest man, unafraid, determined to deal decisively with the root cause of his nation's and his people's terminal problems. Read more here:

Huh? I didn't write what you quoted, angle, yet you refer to post #29 like you are quoting me. I take it the quoted words are from the nigger doctor in question?

Whatever I write is neither "hateful" nor "divisive." I am a uniter...of dispossessed White Americans. I'm fully inoculated against the effects of lame guilt trips on Whitey. Fully.

Hateful, divisive and non-productive spewing. The federal reserve part was correct, however.

...Both methods yielded similar results, which support the previous findings; that is, of all modern human samples, sub-Saharan Africans again exhibit the closest phenetic similarity to various African Plio-Pleistocene hominins...
Ancient teeth and modern human origins: An expanded comparison of African Plio-Pleistocene and recent world dental samples, Journal of Human Evolution Volume 45, Issue 2, August 2003, Pages 113-144