Posted on 10/17/2011 12:54:58 PM PDT by Freemarkets101
Marxist author, professor, and civil rights activist Cornel West was arrested Sunday, along with 18 others, for protesting on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, as part of a October 2011 Stop the Machine demonstration. During the protest, Mr. West denounced "corporate greed" and the "prison industrial complex." And then, he decided to pull Martin Luther King Jr. into his deranged dialogue.
"We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail," West emphatically proclaimed, right before being arrested.
Earlier in the day, he explained his differences with the President:
I can't help but point this out: West says he is colorblind when it comes to viewing a president, that he completely disregards a president's skin color. But in the very next sentence he says, "I am excited to have a black president." If you are going to make hypocritical remarks, at least don't place the contrasting statements one right after the other.It’s not personal ... Anytime I look at a president, I don’t care what color he is. I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.
On another note, I find it interesting how these people attempt to disguise their Marxist ideology by rebuking corporate greed and propagandizing America's so-called devastatingly poor population (because fortunate for Africa and India, they don't have to deal with hunger and social injustice). I would hope the American people can see through such nonsense.
Whatta guy!!!
The “prison industrial complex”
LOL . . . such an intellectual . . Did you think that one up on your own, Cornel? Or did one of your leftist masters give that to you?
I don’t think much of Larry Summers but he did one good thing - he kicked that race-baiting POS out of Harvard.
This ding-dong and 18 others go out withthe full intention of getting arrested and then they complain when it happens.
he should have thanked the arresting officer ,since he got his name in the paper, just as planned.
Too bad they didn’t make a real story of it and get tasered.
Well he got his wish somebody went to jail. Him.
I've got to agree with the Marxist here.
Jail and prison are HUGE businesses. Very pro-union cop job related too.
Will one of the Justice Bruddas please pick up the white courtesy telephone?
“Stop the Machine”???????????
The government IS THE MACHINE
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