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Unread 08-14-2017, 04:04 PM
Emitt Evan Baker Emitt Evan Baker is offline
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Default Cornel West about Charlottesville

Here is an interview with Cornel West. I post it because it isn't often that anarchists get the credit they deserve on the news.

https://www.facebook.com/democracyno...xJztKI&fref=nf
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Unread 08-15-2017, 01:10 AM
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Cornel West shows up a fair bit as a talking head when he isn't doing campaign ads for Jill Stein. He is never without an opinion.

Which is of course an opinion.
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What happened in Charlottesville is something about which one should have an opinion.
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Very true. But, since you raise the question, grandstanding makes me uncomfortable, and that's what I have heard in West since I first heard him on TV. Nor is he a person who lacks a platform for his point of view.
And that is my little platform.
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Here's a short documentary by HBO on the Charlottesville protest and ensuing violence with incredible journalistic access to the extremists and their intentions. The woman journalist did an amazing job.

https://youtu.be/P54sP0Nlngg

If you have trouble accessing it search youtube for "Charlottesville: Race and Terror".
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John, if the person whose behavior bothers you in this instance is Cornel West, you might want to re-examine your priorities.
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