Posted on 11/28/2011 5:26:22 PM PST by SkyPilot
"I think the problem is that the poor children, keep in mind it's 42% of poor children who live at or near poverty, it's 25% in poverty. Our audience needs to keep that in mind." Cornel West said on MSNBC this afternoon.
"Poor children need more than just a $1,000 for their family, they need a war against poverty to make it a major priority in the way which we have a priority for Afghanistan, and a priority to bail out banks, and a priority to defend corporate interests when it comes to environmental issues," West said about more and new entitlements for the poor.
Professor West didn't just call for another war on poverty (the first war was fought by Lyndon B. Johnson), but went on to say that the push for more entitlements "is going to be fought in the streets." West showered the Occupy movement with praise for making people aware of the issue.
"It's a major question of priorities here. That's why the Occupy movement is so important because some of this is going to be fought in the streets. Civil disobedience does make a difference," he said.
"Corporate greed now is an issue everybody has got to talk about. Wealth inequality. Everybody must talk about it because of the Occupy movement," Mr. West concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Bingo. Cornel West has a lot more to take than I do, and he lives near the people he says will want to take it. Too bad, so sad ...
Hah. I had the same response...never even gave the movie a second thought after that until you said it. Spot on.
As someone once said,”I’ll look for you on the field.”
See how well your threats of violence work there, Professor *sshole.
Streets? That’s where where I drive my SUV - real fast.
LOL no kidding...booger hooks on the bang bang switch AND they clearly forgot to water the crummy dope that’s behind the waste of space on the left.
I’m not worried.
You wrote: “Charlatans like West were Booker T. Washington’s greatest fear for the Black community.”
To wit:
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongspartly because they want sympathy and partly becausse it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” - Booker T. Washington, c. 1910, Autobiographical Writings, Vol. 1, p. 430.
MORE:
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3040.Black_Rednecks_and_White_Liberals
LBJ's War On Poverty - 47 Years Old and $1 Trillion Per Year
"I'll have those [expletive deleted] voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.”
This fight is already underway in every suburb surrounding a reservation for unassimilated minorities; the working people have secured their belongings against the war parties that issue forth each day from the reservation, so they have to range further looking for loot. Anyone stupid enough to believe that the reservation is safe for “haves” to pass through soon learns that crime stats are fudged, murders swept under the carpet, etc.
The fight has been in full swing for years.
The guy is a complete clown.
Well, this is what came to my mind:
In The Streets
In the streets,
In the streets...
Where the bullets meet the meat.
They came seeking what was mine,
Said they'd take it in due time.
But they forgot the important part -
A warrior dwells within my heart.
To uphold and defend, it was the oath,
Against foreign, domestic, single or both...
They should have studied that in thier schools,
But instead they chose to be Marxist fools.
So with protest signs they trod my street,
The street where the bullets meet the meat.
by Raven6 ©11-28-2011
You nailed it.
when 60% of what i send goes to support losers... that’s just WAY too much
i won’t be working to support these losers
sorry... i just won’t do it
Maybe we should ‘redistribute’ the money that now goes to Universities...
What a butt-ugly loser.
Your response should be silent preparation... but I know what you mean.
LLS
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