West agrees with Farrakhan

Excerpt from remarks by Dr. Cornel West at Harvard Law School, Dec. 1, 2006. Full video available at: http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Events/Event.aspx?id=100032

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[SisLicia]

How many years this atrocity went on for

SLAVERY WENT ON FOR 400 YEARS AND TODAY MANYS BLACKS STILL HAVE THE EFFECTS OF SLAVERY. TO TOP IT OFF SLAVERY ISNT OVER.

[djamorpheus]

@SisLicia it's a shame but whats happening now is that poor people have become slaves of the elite (no matter their color), the plutocrats and the oligarchs that west talks about.

[ENYPolyglot]

@SisLicia I moved to ENY from Park Slope Brooklyn and ENY looks the same as it did 40yrs ago, that's a shame! Charles Barron earns 100K yet, little progress is made where it's needed. He travels world wide, but can't tend to the block his Brooklyn office is on littered with trash, grafitti and noise pollution! We may need another 400 yrs to get it together.

[ENYPolyglot]

I wish grad students would organize nationwide and out-seat the "over paid" - complacent, back-room dealing politicians we know keep our country stifled. I may not succed CHARLES BARRON next year, but I'm certainly going to make his opponent uncomfortable with business as usual in East New York, Brooklyn. Dr. West hit the mark with such conviction at 1:03; anyone's simple ambition should now be ablazed!

[chrispollock]

@DAngelo136 the free market is the best form of resource distribution available (via individual earning and merit rather than relying on the good will of leaders and committee distribution, which always fails). the free market allows wealth earners to make their own choices with their wealth. if they wish to pass it on to their children, burn it in a giant bonfire or spend it, it is their business, not ours. that's called freedom. passing it on, however, is more constructive. free market rules!

[DAngelo136]

@chrispollock: I would further assert that labor is superior to capital; without labor nothing is created and therefore no capital. Money is merely a medium of exchange which makes exchange of goods and services more efficient. It is not an absolute measure of the value of labor. Again I pose the question: What risk is taken or labor exerted does the inheritor of wealth contribute to create wealth?

[DAngelo136]

@chrispollock you said:"inherited wealth still had to be earned through hard work and risk taking." Your answer begs the question. The ancestor may very well have taken risks and worked hard, but what about the descendants? Where does the so-called free market come in where inheritance is a factor? I say it skewers the free market you put so much faith in. I would suggest YOU read "The Theory Of The Moral Sentiments" which came before "Wealth Of Nations" (1751)

[chrispollock]

@DAngelo136 inherited wealth still had to be earned through hard work and risk taking. wealth does not spring out of a nowhere. the recipients happened to benefit from the hardwork of their forebears. i suggest you read wealth of nations and realize that the free market is the only thing standing between us and authoritarian command type economies. oh and stop taking peoples hard earned money and acting like they owe you the good life...again.

[sssssjjjj1]

UNLESS WE END THE FED, SLAVERY IS JUST BEGINNING. BUT! THEY HAVE WATCHED US TAKE ABUSE FOR SO LONG AND GET ROBBED AND MAKING SLAVES OF US. JUST LIKE A STRONG ARM THUG ROBBING US....DON'T PAY AND GO TO JAIL. THE FOUNDERS PROTECTED US FROM THE GREEDY MURDEROUS JEWS.THEN THEY CAME IN WITH GOLD AND BOUGHT AND BLACKMAILED WILSON. RESEARCH IT. JUST THINK HOW THE PERPS WILL SCREAM WHEN WE SETTLE UP WITH THEM FOR THEIR INSANITY. YOUTUBE DR. ALAN SABROSKY U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE DIR.SAYS,ISRAEL DID 911.

[DAngelo136]

@chrispollock Really, what risk did the George W.Bush take to make his wealth? Oh that's right he inherited it. Ok Paris Hilton? Oh no, she inherited it too; from her father, who inherited it from his father as well. Well certainly the Koch Brothers..no they inherited theirs too. Hard work is a relative term; who works hard, the stockbroker or the laborer? How does one value one type of labor over another? That was a question that Adam Smith posed, I might suggest you read "Wealth Of Nations"

[chrispollock]

@DAngelo136 yeah. stop pretending that hard working, creative, risk taking, productive people owe you the good life. and stop using government to take their money and start earning it for yourself. thank you.

[DAngelo136]

@CellphoneProfitInc I'm a leftist...wanna make something out of that?