Word: cornel
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University President Lawrence H. Summers said yesterday he has been making strenuous efforts to keep Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 at Harvard...
...stories tumble out spontaneously and unrehearsed. He ignores specific questions in favor of animal rights discourses, rhetoric about changing the world, borderline flirtatious remarks about beauty and fingernail polish and gushing adoration of Cornel West. Brother Blue snaps his fingers, speaks in rhythm, drops to whispers, scrunches his face on the verge of tears, stands up to “jive and dance.” His continuous energy is an imposing, persistent vibe in the room. Especially when he’s asking “Do you think you’re beautiful?” Also, when...
...brothers and sisters have the wrong conception of the front line,” voices a smooth-talking Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in his prophetic and radically democratic text Sketches of My Culture. To brother Cornel, the real front lines include “working people fighting against unaccountable corporate power with its obscene levels of wealth and inequality.” At Harvard, the front line struggle can be seen in the bureaucratic reluctance to pay workers a living wage, the inequitable recruitment and retention of minority faculty, the tight-fisted apportionment...
...Sketches of My Culture, Cornel West makes a traditionally elitist discourse palatable to the mass public with his radically-democratic prophetic voice. Rather than being praised for his overarching civic concern, West unfairly became the target of insult. The tragic irony is that faculty, students and colleagues hold West with utmost respect for his intellectual stature, compassionate character and brilliant insights. West empowers diverse and marginalized communities that traditionally are not privy to the rhetoric reserved for those within ivory towers. West ends his song with a challenge for professors, among others, to be on the front line...
...Brother Cornel, you who continually teach us that the front line is here as well as around the world, that a prophetic framework solicits genuine solidarity, that there is no struggle without sacrifice, that without hope there can be no future, we need you with us now more than ever in our work for equity and dignity—please “stay on the front line...