Cornel West Harshly Criticizes President Obama

It is so disheartening to hear Cornel West criticize President Obama.I used to have great respect for this gentelman,however,clearly there are some mental health issues Mr West is dealing with ! The President is not the problem.Mr West need to look inside himself and deal with what’s really going on instead of attacking the President. I mean really, come on now,The President having fear of certain Black Men ? Calls not being returned ? And this really tops it all not getting tickets to the inauguration ? Mr West please get over yourself,and seek help !

West isn’t suggesting a litmus test for
Blackness. What West is doing is no different
from those writers/biographers/pundits who examined the alcoholic father/single mother background of Bill Clinton and speculated on
how that setting shaped the man and future world leader. The same
approach has been taken by biographers and others in examining, ad
nauseam, the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Roosevelt
and any number of other of this nation’s commanders in chief.The
only thing different here is that a man’s Blackness in a heretofore
exclusively White milieu is under examination. “Only.” *smiles* We know
how crazy this country gets when you mention that other four-letter
word: “race.”It’s quite clear that, generally speaking, Whites
in the U.S. grow up with different sets of assumptions about this
nation, the broader world and their perceived place in it than do
African-Americans and other Black folks. How did the foundational
assumptions and experiences of Obama’s White caretakers in his formative years shape his moral
and political ethos, his world-view, and how are those assumptions and
experiences reflected in the way he shapes and conducts policy? Who are
his closest advisers, and why? What are his assumptions about the nature
of American society? About how it wields political and military might?
About the world? Generally speaking, how do these foundational values
and assumptions comport with, or diverge from, those of mainstream
America? Blacks in America? How does he think, and why?For me,
these have been intriguing and useful, if not critical, questions in
understanding and anticipating the Obama presidency. In part as a
result, I’ve rarely been surprised, never disappointed (because I’ve
known what to expect) so far. West’s is a time-honored and highly
traditional approach to understanding the power of the presidency. It’s
high time someone like West raised the issue. I mean just duh.What
I find most amusing is that it’s the Black folks who are the most up in
arms. Y’all are yankin’ my chain. I know you love you some Barack Obama
and want to stick up for him, even if just on GP/BGW (bruthaman good
will), but I also know you know better.So, alluh y’all
knee-grows, please. Quit cha frontin’/buggin’. Since WHEN is race not a
critical factor in the shaping of Black life in America?Yeah. ‘Zackly.

I mean. Just damn…

I think we as black people suffer from codependency.  Foreigners come into America and become entrepreneurs opening up there own business and supporting eachother whether they like a president or not.  African Americans move individually when it comes to helping eachother, only coming together when its time to fight someone when it benefits them.�
Smoking weed and sleeping til three is a major pass time in the hood, and it seems that people want Obama to conform to the hood when the hood should really trying to come up and conform to an education, whether it be community college, entrepreneurship, joining the army, etc.  We complain that their are not enough programs but I have been to many program meetings that started at 8am that did not contain African Americans because it was “too early”.  Yet Latinos and Asians were there in droves.  If you need Obama to wake you up just to take advantage of the opportunities that are there then prepare to be left behind…while complaining about the opportunities that are not there…..or maybe they are there, they just start at 8am.

AND SPEAKING OF PUPPETS….nothing is more of a puppet then a lot of black men in the hood who sell drugs and where the pants hanging with black hoodies, who are convinced that selling drugs is the thing to do…..its a hood thing, Barack wouldn’t understand, huh?   Seems to me since people don’t agree with Obama then go to school and if you can’t go to school go online, or go to Barnes and Noble and become determined to educate yourself.  Why is Barack the only black man at that level without a number of Black men that are close behind, why? because the old willy lynch who has the bigger balls ego trippin, jealousy slave mentality jumps out when an African American rises.  If African Americans were not made puppets by the drug trade then maybe we’d be able to help eachother despite whose president but we are so “high” and “getting that paper” by selling out the mothers of babies to crack that we fallen behind foreigners, asians, and now latinos who have carved out an entrepreneurial niche while we remain codependent.    Cornell West describes black people and free black men, but Cornell West does not represent me, nor did he ask my permission.  Cornell West….do you know how many mixed blacks you just alienated from you and your cause.  We fought and fought to be able to enjoy certain priveleges and now that many blacks have obtained success and status you want to say that they are no longer capaple of relating?  I mean you Cornell West are a instructor at Princeton, if that ain’t far removed from the hood, I don’t know what is.