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In reply to the discussion: Can't the Cornel West apologists admit that his use of the word "n***ized" [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)185. I am white and it is NOT my word to use or comment upon.
Nor is it my place to tell a black professor when and if or how he should use it.
I can't bring myself to be that presumptuous.
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Can't the Cornel West apologists admit that his use of the word "n***ized" [View all]
pnwmom
Sep 2015
OP
You seem really intent on telling a black man to watch his mouth and know his place
Scootaloo
Sep 2015
#1
You cited a homophobic misogynist who called West a pimp and a hustler, Brush
Scootaloo
Sep 2015
#114
Cause we all know ALL and I mean this, ALL African Americans speak with absolutely ONE VOICE... err
nadinbrzezinski
Sep 2015
#184
Cornel can and does say whatever he wants. But Bernie has wrapped his arms
underthematrix
Sep 2015
#12
Jeremiah Wright is a bi-racial pastor a former marine, who said GOD DAMN AMERICA
underthematrix
Sep 2015
#75
I've heard this argument before. Jeremiah Wright. Donnie McClurkin. Bill Ayers.
Scootaloo
Sep 2015
#46
I'm a black man who is a (mild) supporter of President Obama in spite of his flaws
Chitown Kev
Sep 2015
#82
Are you claiming that what West has said is not what "Clinton supporters allege?
brush
Sep 2015
#116
Saying BLM deserves a voice while demanding Cornel not have one is not a logical position.
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#2
BLM wasn't using slurs against anyone. If they had called Bernie a comparable name
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#11
BLMs message that America is a White Supremacist nation is exactly what Cornel is talking about.
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#17
You should stay out of the internal dialog between black people since you don't get the context.
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#90
BLM called Sanders a "white supremacist liberal." That's pretty slurry as far as slurs go
AtomicKitten
Sep 2015
#24
Oh, the irony! When Cornel used the phrase "White supremacy" in his intro speech to Sanders...
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#32
They called his supporters white supremacists. What would you consider a slur?
Doctor_J
Sep 2015
#178
Particularly odd since Cornel West is a BLM activist. People say we need to listen to BLM activists
Chathamization
Sep 2015
#57
The answers I've seen have ranged from straight deflection to intimating it's ok because he black
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#3
I don't want a scholar's words to need to pass some half-wit Republican muster.
DisgustipatedinCA
Sep 2015
#5
He wasn't speaking as a scholar. He was speaking as an attention-seeking blowhard
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#13
Not cool. He's a fellow Democrat and Socialist. Your hyperbolicity is getting tiresome.
ancianita
Sep 2015
#33
He uses racially-based hate words against the first African American President. I don't care what party he is;
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#40
The context IS the ugliness that produced the words, which Obama understands and you don't.
ancianita
Sep 2015
#37
Where is your evidence that Obama would excuse West's personal, racially based attacks?
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#47
I posted a video of him saying he loved West on another thread. You provide evidence that Obama
ancianita
Sep 2015
#56
You are misidentifying what is ugly. Ugly is to not use one's position of power to help
Ed Suspicious
Sep 2015
#86
well read my other posts here. I have said the same thing at least three times.
underthematrix
Sep 2015
#34
Look this is not about making Bernie bad. I don't do that kind of crazy childish shit.
underthematrix
Sep 2015
#54
People are now criticizing Bernie Sanders through his choice of having Cornel West introduce him.
ancianita
Sep 2015
#45
That's how your worldview operates. No I'm not voting for Bernie in the primary but
underthematrix
Sep 2015
#69
"ferocity" is the preferred term for highly educated people such as ourselves. nt
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#81
I'm a Democrat and will vote the way you do. If Cornel were running I'd still vote for him, because
ancianita
Sep 2015
#74
GOP ads that pit black against black? Kind of Willy Horton-y, eh? They'll come off as more racist
ancianita
Sep 2015
#105
Maybe the AA community you know, but not the one I know. You think you got your hand on the
ancianita
Sep 2015
#109
Exactly. No one would care what West says EXCEPT that Bernie has aligned with him. n/t
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#51
Yeah. Obama should have run away from Rev. Wright sooner. (An Obama move, by the way,
Luminous Animal
Sep 2015
#67
How about you give it up already. It was YEARS AGO. He's explained himself. Bernie and Obama get it
ancianita
Sep 2015
#49
Here: eight years of GOP namecalling. You think any criticism of a "brother" would faze him?
ancianita
Sep 2015
#59
So does Cornel, which is why he felt free to call out the president to live up to the struggle. I
ancianita
Sep 2015
#99
You are telling a black scholar and activist to tone down his rhetoric, we get it. nt
Bonobo
Sep 2015
#44
I think we, at least I, am not apologizing for anything he said. He's a smart man. He can say what
Ed Suspicious
Sep 2015
#92
Nope. Not a gift. Pretty sure that if/when Bernie Sanders is nominated, and the GOP brings up
ancianita
Sep 2015
#27
Should we all live our lives in fear of what rightwing haters and bigots think?
arcane1
Sep 2015
#36
Same reason why people riot and burn down a CVS in Baltimore. Why burn down your own neighborhood?
Cheese Sandwich
Sep 2015
#39
We've spent decades, politically, fretting over what the Republicans would make of our actions and
Luminous Animal
Sep 2015
#42
Thank you. Any other AA leader who isn't picture perfect would get the same harsh treatment.
ancianita
Sep 2015
#76
If you agree with West on every issue he differs from Obama on, then what is all the bile about?
mhatrw
Sep 2015
#85
How do you know Obama would defend the use of the word "n***ized" against anyone? n/t
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#88
You do realize that "***" is really quite childish and doesn't change the meaning of the word? You
Ed Suspicious
Sep 2015
#100
Is this your new hobby? Besides counting black faces in crowds I mean.
beam me up scottie
Sep 2015
#144
Are you not a white, straight person who promotes religious clergy who call LGBT rights Satan's idea
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2015
#157