Perhaps he has spent too many years being an official academic radical. Who knows? or cares?
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 2:36:44 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum
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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