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."
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math
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> Wojtek
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