[lbo-talk] Cornel West at the Left Forum

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Tue Mar 22 05:32:18 PDT 2011


On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:58:02 -0400 Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> writes:
> Bill: " I'm glad to hear this. I thought it was just me."
>
> [WS:] Same here - the minstrel show comment nails it down rather
> well. Which makes me wonder - he is a smart guy, the analogy
> certainly has not escaped him. Could it be that he is playing a
> double edged game with predominantly white academic establishment?
> I
> mean, acting like a dandy character in a minstrel show while
> holding
> professorship at Princeton hints that Ivy League is a high brow
> minstrel show, no?

West could remove most doubts by writing another book on the order of his "The American Evasion of Philosophy" or his "The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought."

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