[lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum

[Paul Bartlett]

Or Reverend Billy, speaking like a Baptist Preacher,,,  Why not mix
performance with lecture/sermon? Chomsky is a wordsmith himself, but
performs as a professor...

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


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