[lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Mar 21 15:27:32 PDT 2011


On Mar 21, 2011, at 6:07 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> Oh, I don't think anyone is saying he's a charlatan. But there's just something about being the official black radical of the ivy league that takes a toll. Didn't happen to Chomsky, but Chomsky was a diff generation.

West performs a caricature of a black preacher for a mostly white audience that eats it up. It'd be like Chomsky speaking with a Yiddish accent, like someone out of I.B. Singer.

Doug



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