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WATCH: Anderson Cooper Breaks Down During Poignant Moment Discussing George Floyd's Funeral with Cor
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By Reed RichardsonJun 9th, 2020, 8:53 pm
CNN’s Anderson Cooper choked up and became teary-eyed during a poignant moment discussing George Floyd’s funeral with Dr. Cornel West.
On Cooper’s Tuesday night show, West revisited the funeral of the man whose death has ignited unrest over racial injustice and police misconduct across the nation. In doing so, the Princeton professor weaved together a number of social justice threads and invoked Cooper’s newborn son into a soliloquy about power and speaking truth to it.
“I saw brothers marching in, like in Shiloh Baptist church, and pick up that coffin and go and walk out, my daughter was there, couldn’t take it, man,” West began, ratcheting up his rhythm. “And yet, I got to bounce back. And I will bounce back. Because we got a love that the world can’t take away. The world makes — being black a crime, but we refuse to get into the gutter and we’ll go down swinging like Muhammad Ali in the name of justice. And we do it for brother Wyatt [Cooper] and my daughter and for the Asians and for the whole world. Because that’s the only hope of the world and that kind of love is always tragicomic and you got to get ready to get crucified with that kind of love. And you need to keep dishing it generation after generation after generation.”
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By Reed RichardsonJun 9th, 2020, 8:53 pm
CNN’s Anderson Cooper choked up and became teary-eyed during a poignant moment discussing George Floyd’s funeral with Dr. Cornel West.
On Cooper’s Tuesday night show, West revisited the funeral of the man whose death has ignited unrest over racial injustice and police misconduct across the nation. In doing so, the Princeton professor weaved together a number of social justice threads and invoked Cooper’s newborn son into a soliloquy about power and speaking truth to it.
“I saw brothers marching in, like in Shiloh Baptist church, and pick up that coffin and go and walk out, my daughter was there, couldn’t take it, man,” West began, ratcheting up his rhythm. “And yet, I got to bounce back. And I will bounce back. Because we got a love that the world can’t take away. The world makes — being black a crime, but we refuse to get into the gutter and we’ll go down swinging like Muhammad Ali in the name of justice. And we do it for brother Wyatt [Cooper] and my daughter and for the Asians and for the whole world. Because that’s the only hope of the world and that kind of love is always tragicomic and you got to get ready to get crucified with that kind of love. And you need to keep dishing it generation after generation after generation.”
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The truth made from Prof. West me cry too Anderson
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