Cornel West on Tavis Smiley - Part 1

[cnucmecnu]

Cornel West doesn't even come close to being comparable to W.E.B. Dubois, IMHO ...

[iiiMiL]

LMAO! This cat Smiley comes on Public Television at 9/10:00 at night where almost no one will watch! I'm sure that's an accident......LOL! Keep Ya Head up Tavis. Do Ya Thang.

[cesrun1]

I wonder if cornel and tavis were given a special invitation to the oresidential innaguration, and they were on the world stage, if their distructive behaviour would have been less poisonous? I do agree with professor Melissa Harris on the personal attack and its lack of productivity. what has cornel done for the people he is so-called concerned about. Cornel and Tavis want attention and they are showing their jealousy. Their behaviour is shameful I will not join in with others to hurt.

[civilrights22]

@cesrun1 Get your head out of Obama's...! What have Obama done for the people? Nothing, but make a speech. Puppet.

[Manik2Magik]

@cesrun1 What's shameful about them?

[cnucmecnu]

Cornel West suks...he's a bigoted idiot...he speaks of our President fearing free black men because of his mother & maternal grandparents being caucasian...yet, his light brown skin indicates a heritage that includes other racial make-up besides African...furthermore, I'm sure West's commments have minimal to no effect on President Obama...the man has had to deal with racism from both blacks & whites throughout his life...

[cnucmecnu]

including the racism coming from this pseudo-intellectual, mixed race bigot otherwise known as Cornel West...He speaks of the downtrodden black man but fails to realize that most of them are of mixed race heritage.& what does he know of the downtrodden?he is a member of the elite black upper classes who pretends to care about blacks living in poverty but does nothing except make a disc that does nothing to help inner city youth but ask them to spend money to purchase it.

[realbamaboy1]

@cnucmecnu I voted for man president Obama and got a puppet president Obama!

[cnucmecnu]

@realbamaboy1 the puppets are ppl who fall for the hype coming from these pseudo intellectuals who are going to help put a tea party politician in the white house to appoint several conservative judges to the SCOTUS. to erode everyone's civil rights....

[wolfengheist]

Cornell West = pseudo intellectual

[MrBWB]

"beautiful to be a free black man, a free black women"... why not to just be a free person? categorization is the root of racism.

[soccerdude601]

@MrBWB Because a lot of blacks are still in bondage in a metaphorical sense. They exalt ignorance and stupidity while shunning knowledge and enlightenment.

[MrBWB]

@soccerdude601 I do agree with what you said, but that is just a very dangerous path. I find it so much healthier to look at every person as an individual.

[blossomcandy01]

Always love listening to Dr.West! How the hell can anyone dislike this?!

[worldfamous09]

Cornel west @ 1:23

[silverfoote]

Wow..just commenting on that genius' whos sign name is "JosephusBlowesus", and his comments on Cornel West. This coming from a channel that has 2 favorited videos, one from Beavis and Butthead, and the other is Sarah Palin. Need I comment more ? I don't think so. Man I feel sorry for you, you could learn a lot from the Doctor. I know he'd even pray for you, I know you need it. Godspeed.

[orbis2009]

The multinational Planned Parenthood plants itself for profit in the neighborhoods of the poor, especially the Black poor from the projects in the US to the vast poverty-stricken areas in Africa. PP's founder Margaret Sanger spoke before the KKK in the interests of ridding the world of useless eaters. The unexamined life is not worth living. We must examine these pre-articulated positions and presuppositions. The blood of blacks is flecking the executioners masks. Be not their gatekeepers.

[orbis2009]

Peter Singer (read postpartum infanticide, euthanasia and eugenics) from Princeton is in this film. An ominous appearance. Especially when abortion kills more black brothers and sisters than anything else. See the Blackgenocide website. Brothers West and Smiley, they are exterminating...

[JosephusBlowesus]

Crummy musician pathetic intellectual. He's just a lame ass pop culture talking head with a bad afro

[jackschreck]

@JosephusBlowesus The man is a modern-day black David Hume.And if you think pop culture its the only thing he has to talk about, you need to shut your lips and leran

[MrWoodson87]

what a mind.

[teaweed303]

we need more intellectuals

[JosephusBlowesus]

@teaweed303 and how does Cornell West fit into that scenario?

[RichmondVAbuzz]

america doesnt have many famous 'intellectuals' - but here are two of the best -

[bensonchad]

I saw Dr West at Winston Salem State University tonight. I was inspired by him to spend part of my blessing in this life helping those less fortunate than me. He taught me..there is no cure, but there is progress.

[alwaysright10000]

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[mikeisthesouth]

months ago

[rodeo179]

Cornel West is hated by Lawrence Summers fans, ADL crowd, zionists, neo-cons, etc. So, plenty of ignorant folks who will put him down.

Hence, not surprised to see hate-filled comments here

[init4fun]

Larry Summers has a "fan..." aside from the elites he serves? That's hilarious. And, you're right; they don't come much more ignorant than Summers.

[enhoward]

polymath7 and mikeisthesouth...this is yotube!! not saying you cant have an agrument, just saying take it easy, Im trying to figure out why Tavis Smiley didnt have you guys on his show....lol

[polymath7]

If you are inclined to suspect I am a racist, go to a video called The Real Eve, part one.

Click on 'see all comments', and scroll down to an exchange I had several months ago with a white supremacist who called himself 'hahawhat'.

You will see that I was far more brutal with him than I have been with you.

[mikeisthesouth]

did you say mastery??? how about actually learning what the silly words mean before you say them "pseudo intellectual" and then you can maybe consider yourself a master of words..lol

[polymath7]

You continue to prove yourself an idiot.

You seem to be suggesting, as you did in your private message, that It is inappropriate to apply the term "pseudo-intellectual" to someone as supposedly gifted (scoff) as Mr. West.

As I already told you, even if you're right, this is *entirely"* different from not knowing what the word means.

You have yet to demonstrate that I have misused a single word.

Try again.

[mikeisthesouth]

i have yet to demonstrate?? lol are you paying attention!! and talk about proving to be an idiot ..lol yea whatever..go learn more words lol or whatever you do....i dont like talking to people that dont know theyre dumb

[polymath7]

You should actually offer your proof, rather than repeatedly making a naked assertion.

I think the former must be more difficult or you would do it.

Do you even understand the value of actual evidence?

To any highly intelligent black people who may read this, don't wince.

I am well aware that this feckless idiot is not representative of you.

[mikeisthesouth]

says the idiot who make ridiculous comments about cornel west..lol.

[polymath7]

Are you really so stupid as not to notice that you have left any actual argument altogether unattempted?

Shit or get off the throne, kiddo.

[alwaysright10000]

You''re a fucking moron. You have the mind of ten year old."

"Polymath" may be dick, but he smacked your ass down hard, bra.

[mikeisthesouth]

you mean the dude that i owned moths ago until he beg me to stop? ill give you a week to think about then come back and apologize or get owned

[alwaysright10000]

Wher did he beg you to stop? I didn't catch that part, my nigga. All I saw was he challenged you to make an argument and your dumb ass couldn't even do that. You couldn't even MAKE an argument, get it? How old are you? I hope you aen''t a grown man, cuz if you are , youre one duuuuumb ass motherfucker.

I mean borderline-retarded.

Seriously.

I'd bet my house you're a janitor or something.

I'd bet my *dick* you don't have a college degree.

So go ahead, own my ass, bitch.

[mikeisthesouth]

then you would be dickless right about now..might as well grow some titts while youre at...and it might help if you ask your boyfriend what happen to him when he challenge me..lol hint you can actually send private messages on here too..lol idiot

[alwaysright10000]

Dickless? Not likely. What's your degree in? Tell me, I could use a laugh. While you're at it, tell what happpen when he challenge you? I saw a smackdown bitch, and it was yo ass on the ground.

"You can actually send private messages"

And your point is...?

Damn, when you can't even tell what a motherfucker's TRYING to say, and he don't even ralize it, you know his dumb ass don't have a clue.

[mikeisthesouth]

first of lame...dickless beacuse you said you would bet your dick ya fag degree and certifications....business management,computer programmer,real estate license,business owner, car dealer license, and by the way you dont have a clue what i meant about you can actually send private messages huh?lol..nuff said

[alwaysright10000]

God, what a couple of asshats.

Pretendeing people are brilliant when they manifestly are not only provides ammunition to racists.

[mikeisthesouth]

i would bet your life that this guy is smarter then everybody you could possibly know!!!! and by the way no such thing as a racist black man!!! you should read more and learn the true meaning of a racist before talking

[polymath7]

I.

You may be firmly ensured that this dribbling buffoon is nowhere near as intelligent as I am -and even he were smarter than I, it surely remains quite "possible" that I may know a great many who are vastly more intelligent than he.

West is the *very* type of person for whom the term "pseudo-intellectual" was coined. His work in philosophy and criticism has quite deservedly been roundly disregarded among the intelligentsia.

And don't blather to me about his citations...

[polymath7]

II.

...they are due entirely to the noise he makes. When I said it encourages racism to pretend that people are brilliant when they are not, I meant (mostly) *white* racism. When a racist of the 'Bell-Curve' variety is told that such an obvious jackass is the best the black intelligentsia has to offer, he is likely to think he sees his racism confirmed.

It is massively idiotic to say that there is no such thing as a racist black man, and I can see little alternative to the conclusion,,,

[polymath7]

III.

...that you are an afro-centrist and a racist.

Can you suggest an alternative interpretation your statement that is more plausible?

Now please tell me what I might have read that would lead me to accept your idiosyncratic -and obnoxiously selective- definition of racism.

[mikeisthesouth]

all this jibberish youre talking is silly...just keep it simple...and stop trying to go overboard..to seem smart..lolololololol ..people like you just dont get it

[mikeisthesouth]

the term" pseudo-intellectual"??? you mean the term that descibes kids that think they know it all??...or better yet describes you?? please do your research before you say certain things....lol

[polymath7]

Where did I suggest I "know it all"?

Was there EVER a person of exceptional intelligence ANYWHERE who was not frequently accused of thinking he "knew it all"?

You made assertion, and I rebutted it, nor was anything approaching omniscience required to do so.

My "jibberish" is in fact unimpeachably lucid English prose. If you find it abstruse, perhaps it is you who ought to read more.

I again call your bluff; how does anything I have said belie a lack of research? -be prepared to say why.

[mikeisthesouth]

do you have to say unnecessary words to make simple comments???? thats what i called " jibberish" lol i mean really do you actually talk like that? lol very funny if you do... lack of research because you called him "pseudo" withoout knowing what it means...i told you what it refers too!!!! thats why

[polymath7]

B-I

It is rapidly becoming obvious that you are an idiot.

I will be the judge of what words are unnecessary, and which best convey the specific meaning I intend in the context in which I employ them.

Yes, I actually talk like this, and have done so from the age of fifteen. I am quite accustomed to the snickering of unlettered bovines who find something comical in those who unabashedly attempt to exploit the full resources of the English language.

If such mastery is to be considered...

[polymath7]

B-II

...a liability, you would do well to cultivate a similar misfortune, were it not beyond grasp of your intelligence.

My application of "pseudo-intellectual" is semantically unassailable even if my assessment of West is entirely mistaken.

You lose.

[MackTheKnife12]

I love to hear this guy spit game

[tommybrown187]

you have to be commited to TRUTH youre not commited to the narrow sensibilities or sentiments of your audience.you want to UPLIFT your audience.CHALLANGE your audience

[polymath7]

I don't see how he could possibly be said to *challenge* his audience.

This is laughable.

West is little more than a grocery list of preacher man platitudes.

[yogiunlimited1234567]

West, Chompsky, Howard Zinn' = greatest intellectuals of our time.

[trevdiggz]

Dr.west is a great voice for the wise and educated hip hop fan,who dont always want to hear shoot'em up bang bang(by the way i love shoot'em up bang bang hip hop).I dig alot of the concepts that he bring forth,"DANCEABLE EDUCATION".This may seem like a new idea but its not,thats the essence of hip hop.From the start HIP HOP was a way for GHETTO YOUTHS to vent and stay away from the streets.Hip hop always had a message in it,it still does but the mainstream,and business side trumped the culture

[likecrunchyness]

Tell it, West.

[DLSMaster]

I wish peple stop disin him he is the greatest mondern & postmondern thinker that GOD made. I have several of his books one called Race Maters another The Cornel West Reader & I have his CD CORNEL WEST & BMWMB Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations. He's is a person that will make you wake the H**l up & take a stand up for human rites, human freedom & human dignity. His words is filed with knowlege of the heart, wisdom of the soul & intellect of the mind. Peple can learn alot from him

[michc87]

read his book, Race Matters, very insightful regardless of race.

[poetuvdapeople]

Cornel West evokes the black brillance of the past (think of Dubois), the present (himself, Dyson, Angelou and others), and the future (me and the others like the one who posted this video and the others who've left insightful comments).....

Peace and Love to you all!!!

[dbrooks800]

Love Cornel West. This is the ( type of)man our youth should look up to and emulate.

[specialsunnyd]

I do.

[Pinky12OO]

@dbrooks800 wow i just posted that on my facebook.

[lordcron]

This man's existence is a must.

[lewis22tk]

Wal-Mart doesn't do anything for any community At all. Other than opening stores in your town and putting all the stores around it out of business. And offering job opportunities that don't pay shit.

[BrotherJR76]

Dr. West, one of the baddest intellectuals alive. The Dubois of our time, period!

[MrWoodson87]

@BrotherJR76 so true! more youth especially black youth need to listen to this man.

[cnucmecnu]

@BrotherJR76 the word is spelled saddest...

[dennisdeem]

by all accounts, dr. west is one of the most brilliant people of our time. he gives me hope for the future of academe.

[ramramram30]

This man is inspiring!

[thirdeyehigh]

Thank-You so much, I'll pass this on to "the others."

[donnie350]

yeah good stuff, but could have done without the Commercials, especially the walmart one...=D

[xonder]

THANK you~!!!

[djb10]

i was hoping this would get posted. thanks