Cornel West: Obama A ‘Republican In Blackface,’ Black MSNBC Hosts Are ‘Selling Their Souls’
During an interview last week with Democracy Now, author and activist Cornel West offered harsh criticism of President Barack Obama, calling him a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface” and not someone who is actually looking out for the best interests of the impoverished. The prominent social critic also lashed out at black MSNBC personalities, accusing them of “selling their souls” in support of a president who has been anything but progressive.
“I think that it’s morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on an election, $2 billion on a presidential election, and not have any serious discussion,” West lamented to host Amy Goodman. “Poverty, trade unions being pushed against the wall dealing with stagnating and declining wages when profits are still up and the 1 percent are doing very well, no talk about drones dropping bombs on innocent people,” he continued.
He explained that the election season saw a “truncated” version of political discourse with climate change being overlooked.
West then took a stab at the president: “It’s very sad. I mean, I’m glad there was not a right-wing takeover, but we end up with a Republican, a Rockefeller Republican in blackface, with Barack Obama, so that our struggle with regard to poverty intensifies,” he said.
“That’s a pretty rough assessment of President Obama,” Goodman replied.
“Oh, that’s what we have. Richard Nixon is to the left of him on health care. Richard Nixon’s to the left of him on guaranteed income,” West followed up.
Later on in the interview, West was asked to comment on black MSNBC hosts like Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Rev. Al Sharpton who regularly praise President Obama. He offered up a similarly harsh critique:
I love Brother Mike Dyson … but we’re living in a society where everybody is up for sale. Everything is up for sale. And he and Brother Sharpton and Sister Melissa and others, they have sold their souls for a mess of Obama pottage. And we invite them back to the black prophetic tradition after Obama leaves. But at the moment, they want insider access, and they want to tell those kind of lies. They want to turn their back to poor and working people.He concluded by calling those MSNBC’ers “apologists” for the Obama administration despite having a rigorous background in progressive critical thought.
Watch below, via Democracy Now:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cornel-we...g-their-souls/
VIDEO: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/cornel-w...-obama-pottage
http://atlantablackstar.com/2012/11/...port-of-obama/During the course of the interview, West called Obama a “Rockefeller Republican in blackface” and “crypto-fascist” for his treatment of terrorism suspects and said the president was guilty of war crimes for killing innocent people with drones in the Middle East.
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Last edited by SA210; 11-18-2012 at 10:59 PM.
If Barry and the Dems cut a penny of benefits out of Medicare, Medicaid, SS, letting the Bowles-Simpson-Peterson-1% sucker them into exactly what they wanted for 35+ years, I'll be more pissed than these AAs.
LOL having to choose between two Republicans every election now.
Republicans would argue that we choose between two democrats every election
Well that rotted my brain
Really?Sharpton Sold Soul for Obama
I didn't know he had a soul at all to sell....
A lot of the criticism Republicans lob at Obama are things that I actually wish were true. When they say he doesn't show enough support for Israel and isn't hard enough on Islam in the middle east, or when they say he's bad for corporations and the private sector, I really wish those were criticisms that actually had merit. He's a total corporate shill and Netanyahu puppet just like Republican candidates are
I don't care what politicians do with their souls or s, only what they do in the policy and governing sphere.
Obama agrees to cut Social Security in fiscal cliff deal
Negotiations to avert falling off the ‘fiscal cliff’ before the end of the year have compelled President Obama to agree to cuts in Social Security payments.......
Democrats should be disappointed in President Obama’s willingness to abandon his promises to protect Social Security. Congressional and Senate candidates will surely face devastating losses in the next election if they go along with a deal that takes money out of seniors’ pockets every month, while simultaneously raising their taxes.
Obama might think that raising taxes on the rich is the Holy Grail of fiscal cliff negotiations. But there are some 40 million Americans who would likely disagree.
The average Social Security payment is about $1,230 a month. If Obama signs a deal that includes using a chained CPI to reduce payments over time, for seniors struggling to make ends meet, life is about to get harder.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...cal-cliff-deal
Hope/Change
Obama is a moderate, so of course he is disappointing to many liberals.
Obama agrees to cut Social Security in fiscal cliff deal
Negotiations to avert falling off the ‘fiscal cliff’ before the end of the year have compelled President Obama to agree to cuts in Social Security payments.......
Democrats should be disappointed in President Obama’s willingness to abandon his promises to protect Social Security. Congressional and Senate candidates will surely face devastating losses in the next election if they go along with a deal that takes money out of seniors’ pockets every month, while simultaneously raising their taxes.
Obama might think that raising taxes on the rich is the Holy Grail of fiscal cliff negotiations. But there are some 40 million Americans who would likely disagree.
The average Social Security payment is about $1,230 a month. If Obama signs a deal that includes using a chained CPI to reduce payments over time, for seniors struggling to make ends meet, life is about to get harder.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...cal-cliff-deal
Hope/Change
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/12/18/progressives-push-back-on-obamas-fiscal-cliff-offer/
The White House had previously suggested cuts to Social Security were off the table in fiscal cliff talks.
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, with his latest fiscal cliff offer, proposes extending the Bush tax cuts for everyone earning less than $400,000 a year, and paying for it by increasing taxes on the middle class and cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Obama's offer would allow the payroll tax holiday to expire, meaning middle class workers will see smaller paychecks in 2013. Economists have warned that the recovery is too fragile to risk a broad tax hike on workers. It would also gradually reduce Social Security, pension and disability benefits seniors are due to receive, taking a small bite up front, but building up to much larger cuts over time.
Chained CPI will reduce SS payments by about 3% over 10 years. That's about $39 dollars/mo for the average SS payment. He did campaign on a balanced approach...Obama agrees to cut Social Security in fiscal cliff deal
Negotiations to avert falling off the ‘fiscal cliff’ before the end of the year have compelled President Obama to agree to cuts in Social Security payments.......
Democrats should be disappointed in President Obama’s willingness to abandon his promises to protect Social Security. Congressional and Senate candidates will surely face devastating losses in the next election if they go along with a deal that takes money out of seniors’ pockets every month, while simultaneously raising their taxes.
Obama might think that raising taxes on the rich is the Holy Grail of fiscal cliff negotiations. But there are some 40 million Americans who would likely disagree.
The average Social Security payment is about $1,230 a month. If Obama signs a deal that includes using a chained CPI to reduce payments over time, for seniors struggling to make ends meet, life is about to get harder.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed...cal-cliff-deal
Hope/Change
As someone who works closely with those in poverty, for many years now and as someone who grew up in poverty, that 39 dollars is a of a lot :/
I see Ren and Stimpy are complaing again
What did they say that isn't true?I see Ren and Stimpy are complaing again
I don't listen to those clowns...but I can surmise they're on a personal agenda Obama snubbed me tour...they might even be on crack...
You don't know what they said, makes sense.
they've been saying the same 2 yrs into Obama's presidency when he refused to show up to their "Black State of Union" forum for blacks only...
the real scoop on those two clowns
http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/13...012-11-13.html
The real scoop is they tell the truth about Obama so you'd like to help smear them
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