West: would have invaded South Africa; OK to blow up stuff

[hookalakah]

"Cornel West, the Princeton professor of African-American studies...has never been much more than a six-figure entertainer, ready to bite the hand that pays him even while reaching for his check. He has never seen a microphone or television camera that he did not like.

Publicity, not scholarship, is his true tradition. West often gives his listeners no more than sound and fury, signifying nothing. And he is very good at appearing overcome by his passionate convictions." --Stanley Crouch

[GraffitiBombing247]

I'm not 100% against what this guy is saying but what I hate about americans is that they talk about crap that they know nothing of, he said ANC only blew up property but my aunt found a mortar bomb in a supermarket (bomb squad defused it) and my mom couldhave been killed when a bomb exploded in the food court in her office building ... so YES innocent people WERE targeted!

[Crillin112]

This is why 3 minute sound bites are very misleading....ppl dont even want to understand what he's trying to say... they only get on here to disagree and talk shit... Obviously he's not for blowing up, or killing anything... and in that 45 minute speech you can't expect him to go down the list of everything, so he hits his most important parts....If people arent mature enough to try and understand where he's coming from....you can forget making any real changes in this world...its a wrap.

[sectumsempra55]

HaHa this guy is a tool. I suggest you do your research. The ANC with their SWAPO buddies killed innocents in South West Africa and in South Africa. read the news, do some research. Harvard lecturer my ass. can't even get the facts straight. The ANC was a terrorist group in Central Africa before it become a political party and it did commit terrorist acts in Southern Africa through the 60's, 70's and 80's.

[Freshhhhh1982]

Mandela was a fuckin saint. If the tables were turned and an African minority were ruling a European nation the same way, the European nation would have slaughtered all of them.

[liquid0celot]

"Courageous communist"

That's a very big contradiction.

I don't get why they let such morons preach their nonsense at Harvard.

[bapyou]

@liquid0celot " "Courageous communist" ... a very big contradiction."

Considering the communist Soviet Union won World War 2 for the west (the battle of Stalingrad was decisive), or that it was communists who libertated northern Italy from the fascists long before the Allies rolled into Milan; or considering communists formed the bulk of the resistance movement in both France and Italy, I'd say your snide insinuations are pretty fucking baseless.

But then, consider that you're cowardly scum.

[DarkwingScooter]

Imagine if a foreign country came to YOUR neighborhood and blew up random houses.

Let's say china bombed Harvard to liberate the Mexican immigrants and poor whites affected by the sub-prime crisis. Liberate the populace from the Fed and such...

Would you guys be streaming out into the streets to greet them as saviours? Or flock by the millions to sign up for the military industrial complex?

It is easy to advocate military action in SOMEONE ELSE'S country.

[danny007firefly]

Ignorance of true history knows no bounds. This asshole resonates alright...with rhetoric that underscores his ghetto background and "gangsta" leanings. The ANC were, and remain, an organization that based its ideology on Marxism and the overthrow of Western influence. And the West swallowed it like the weak suckers they are. The ANC didn't win, people...the USSR did. The fall of communism there does not justify the historical gullibility that the West constantly exhibits.

[pislelie]

The ANC launched a protracted terror campaign against the SA goverment and whites in general.

They atacked defenceless or lightly defended targets. Schools churches post offices even apartment buildings. In the early 80s I lived in an apartment block that was attacked with 3 rockets by ANC terrorists (lucky for me and the other families they missed). So get your head out of your ass...

[NKASINI]

The last comment is so true one mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist. So yeah I guess mandela and bin laden are very similiar people. But this guy saying blowing up property and not killing people is ok. Many bombs that the ANC used killed and maimed innocent people, all condoned by the mighty terrorist himself MANDELA

[bekuthando]

MANDELA was a terrorist and charged for terrorism crimes. Osama bin Laden might 1 day be regarded as a hero in the USA just as Mandela is now a hero in the RSA

[jefozz]

How can this idiot say innocent people weren't killed in ANC bombs in South Africa. ONLY innocent people were killed.Nothing justifies killing innocent people. A terrorist is a terrorist,is a terrorist.....................­!!!!!!!!!!

[TheNurseJulie]

Very different from "OK to blow stuff up". That was a very good answer to that question.