Word: cornel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ever really know what went on at that meeting, was that it wasn’t just that President Summers called him in and said, “What the heck are you doing recording a rap CD?” This was sort of a larger criticism of Cornel West over the last five years; I mean it hasn’t just been recording a rap CD. It’s been acting and working on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s next presidential campaign. It’s been participating in student protest. It?...
...from here and they said, “Good for you. Thank God you’re using whatever little platform you have to say these kinds of things and raise these kinds of issues.” And if I’m getting that kind of thing, Cornel West must be getting it 150,000-fold, and I think that that is a responsibility—talk about responsibility—to use the position he has to raise the kind of questions he does. I’ve never heard him say anything vindictive, hurtful, spiteful, anti...
McCarthy: One of the things that I do know, because one of his head TFs for the three major courses that he teaches is one of my closest friends, is that he has not missed a class since he’s been here. In fact, on September 11th, Cornel was in Times Square. He apparently called Skip Gates and said, “I’m not going to be able to get out of Manhattan because no one is getting out of Manhattan, and I’m not going to be back...
...should be, we need to focus more on the modes of inquiry rather than the people who are doing the inquiring. I think the first priority should be about method and the kinds of things we are studying. The fact that everyone outside of Harvard is talking about Cornel West and Larry Summers and whether Skip Gates and Kwame Appiah are going to go with Cornel and not about what Higginbotham or Tommie Shelby is doing or about Jamaica Kincaid is emblematic of a larger misfocus...
...it’s embarrassingly bad, it’s another failure and if I made it, I’d be embarrassed. And I’m not trying to question the validity of spoken word or rap or any of those traditions. I just think that Cornel West has made a rather bad spoken word CD where he says a bunch of rather banal things that are not terribly interesting...