[lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Mon Mar 21 14:36:44 PDT 2011


On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:50:16 +0000 (UTC) 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> Well, I don't know what his problem is, but I found I could not watch
> him more than a few minutes.

Yes. I had the same experience. It was obscurely embarrassing; made one squirm.

I was trying to figure out why (apart from West's usual shallow platitudinousness, I mean).

Best I could come up with: it was like watching a tasteless and untalented parody of, say, Jesse Jackson, performed by a white guy in burnt cork, false beard, and fright wig.

The beard in particular looked as if it might have been left over from a high-school production of The Merchant of Venice, or perhaps a Midwestern Christmas pageant.

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