CORNEL WEST (Part 1 of 7)

If you view this series of videos you will be treated to a great stand up performance by one of the worlds best thinkers and speakers. Professor Cornel West manages to be both informative and entertaining. His style is a cross between preacher, pundit and prophet. He embodies the spirit of Socialism and Christianity, as he inspires us all: young, old, black,white, yellow & red. No man packs more humanity in his ideas. Our man graduated from Harvard, cum laude and went on to receive a masters and Phd from Princeton, where he now teaches. I was very fortunate to catch his act at a local community college where I take classes.

This clip is the first of seven parts. Part 2 can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOmanin-Ipw

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• christianity
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[dreed007]

A lot of lyrical emotional ranting, but where's the beef?

[radiohogan]

@dreed007

I understand your point. As I listened to Professor West, I was enthralled. After a short time, I could not remember a single thing the man said.

[gunman806]

I'd appreciate it if you'd share the ethical system that informs your political and economic goals. You're clearly highly ideological, and ascertaining the foundation of your prescriptions would permit me to gain a better understanding of your perspective.

[radiohogan]

Q Gunman806

Are you addressing me or Professor West?

[gunman806]

ScottBrown666, although I'd be interested to know what normative ethical system you subscribe to as well.

[radiohogan]

@ G-man

See my video Existentialism & Pragmatism.

[lenarita1]

i love this man. i never tire of listening to him.

[JSprings27]

This man speaks the truth.

[oldscorpion13]

@radiohogan Think for yourself should be the one of the things you should take away from him. The very fact that you see no "guidance" in some of what he said, is that you have to figure things out for yourself, i.e. again, he achieved one of his points. Did he get you there? Perhaps.. despair is the symptom of achieving independent thinking and attempt at introspection. Are you looking for the beef... handed to you? ;) Poverty not important enough-a-topic as a critical part of human society?

[hardmod777]

Cornel West is an archaic voice of the past. As we Gringos become the minority, his banter will become more of a joke. Where is your boogy man, when the white man is the minority? Who will he blame then? Christian Socialism makes as much sense as M&M.

[ScholarforTruth]

@radiohogan If you want his unique, meaty philosophical perspective, you should pick up his Prophesy Deliverance.

[metatron4070]

I find it interesting that even though the mans vocabulary is vast, he can make a point that even a person with general education like myself can understand his passion as well as his points, yet others on here with replies showing that they understand his vocabulary miss his point. I cant help but believe that it is a choice...or simply that the struggle which he addresses is not yours....

[elfujitivo8777]

@dreed007 What you talkin bout Willis? What he's sayin is what he's sayin. He's talking about fucking freeing yourself from the Matrix. Seeing the light and what not, literacy not ignorance.

[Danno1850]

@radiohogan you're not listening hard enough

[kevcas73]

@dreed007 you're a footnote, a soundbite, a small dog scratching at the feet of real issues.........have a good one.

[dreed007]

@kevcas73 Your "poetry" as well as Cornell West's is vacuous. He puts on a facade of multi-syllabic pseudo-intellectual babble and you're mesmerized. End of story.