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...racist power elite? And who but Cornel West, having tasted the bitter cup of failure, would return to the political arena so quickly, laboring in the vineyards for the as-yet-unannounced presidential campaign of the Rev. Al Sharpton? In fact, who but Professor West would see that Al Sharpton??regarded by many lesser minds as an anti-Semitic and unrepentantly dishonest demagogue—might “fuse the best of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.,” and thus be the key to racial reconcialiation in America...
...spokesperson for Cornel R. West ’74 defended the Fletcher University professor’s involvement in the Rev. Al Sharpton??s presidential exploratory committee this week, following the recent conflict between University President Lawrence H. Summers and West that was reportedly sparked in part by Summers’ criticism of West’s role in the campaign...
Since news of the conflict broke over the University’s winter break, West, who was recruited in late summer to lead Sharpton??s committee, has given no indication he will stop working on the committee...
...Sharpton??s reputation for taking bold and perhaps unconventional action has led to heavy criticism in the past...
While imprisonment generally tends to tarnish a political figure’s image, Ogletree said Sharpton??s Vieques sentence does not detract from his candidacy...