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...Cornel West emerges as a key black thinker...
With his full-blown Afro, close-fitting three-piece suits and fondness for rap music, Cornel West comes across as too hip to be a philosopher. That helps explain why people are always confusing him with someone considerably less highbrow, especially when he's not on campus...
...these incidents suggest, Cornel West is one complex dude: brilliant scholar, political activist, committed Christian and soul brother down to the bone. At 40 he has become one of the most insightful and passionate analysts of America's racial dilemma to emerge in recent years, the architect of a post-civil rights philosophy of black liberation that is beginning to be heard across the country. "I think he is one of our most important critical thinkers," says James H. Cone, West's former colleague at New York's Union Theological Seminary. "He has almost singlehandedly helped us see the importance...
...protest against segregation. But he went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard in only three years, while simultaneously working two jobs and earning a reputation as one of the most bodacious dancers ever to do the funky chicken on an Ivy League campus. Says his brother Clifton: "Cornel has always liked to go to two or three parties every weekend, but only after reading two or three books. He's been like that since...
Some friends fear the hoopla will prove impossible for West to resist. "You've got to understand one thing about Cornel," says a colleague. "There's a part of him that wants to be the next H.N.I.C. It's not just white folks holding him up." Says Cone: "One of the best ways to destroy someone is to expose and promote him. It's very hard to be critical of a system that makes a hero...