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...even the most devoted dads can't get jobs where there are none or start a business where there's no start-up capital-problems that conservatives pay lip service to at best. "You can't solve these problems on individual transformation alone,'' warns Harvard University professor and author Cornel West...
...suppose there are those out there who found Professor Cornel West's apology for his participation in the Million Man March somewhat short of convincing. To me, reading the op-ed piece in the New York Times was out-right painful. Here was a stunning exemplar of that genre of moral acrobatics that I shall call the "bracket...
Racism is really a classic example of the prisoner's dilemma. Both white and black people wish to end it, but black people, seeing that racism can translate into oppression, think they must fight fire with fire. As Cornel West says, it is natural for a black person to counter racism with racism. And white people, seeing that black people are also racist, refrain from purging their own attitudes of racist thoughts. Thus neither side of the color line benefits and both sides end up separating form each other...
...seems as if the black community, as represented by Harvard professor Cornel West, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Benjamin Chavis, Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson, is preoccupied with institutional racism...
...Harvard itself, the Black Student Association is devoted almost entirely to consolidating support among the black community without looking at the common grounds shared by everyone. In a recent piece by Cornel West for the New York Times, West writes, "For most whites, the Million Man March...can only worsen race matters. For them, he [Farrakhan] not only embodies black rage but also black hatred and contempt for whites." Exactly what is the black community mad about? There has never been a time in American history when all members of the black race have had opportunities before them...