Cornel West Quotes


Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.


Citations

West, Cornel. Interview by Tavis Smiley. Tavis Smiley, PBS, 2010.

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Cornel West
Cornel West
  • Born: June 2, 1953
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Educator

Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness." A radical democrat and socialist, West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the black church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters (1994) and Democracy Matters (2004).