sharpton is absolutely right. cornel west can eat a fat dick. sharpton made a critical point about “academicians in ivory towers.” cornel west is @ like 30 years in the game in ivy league academia. in fact when i visited princeton during college trips i got to speak to the dude.

my assessment of him then is the same i have of him now. he’s insulated and an almost narcissistic recursive amalgamation of his own propaganda. He teaches and is DIRECTLY responsible for the production for some of the most powerful up and coming “oligarchs” by virtue of his position at Princeton. His very existence speaks to the fact that he is actively part of the production pipeline for wall street and the financial system.

We are all hypocrites in ways but he’s a special kind of hypocrite that produces an educational and economic elite who then purports himself to be part of the proletariat. no bueno, nigga.

then he raises his hands, ostensibly in support of the working class, criticizes wall street (awash in ivy league grads – almost all of the critical african american wall street operatives are ivy league grads), writes a book, does the bill maher show like 3 times a year and speaks in rhyme. it’s a great hustle. but it’s bullshit.

sharpton is a shill and an opportunist. any given day i would never have sharpton speak for me. but between these two dudes sharpton has a more acute awareness of the needs of the average man and has taken a more hands on – responsible approach to solving black problems in america.

some of the things that obama has done for black people in his administration:

-healthcare. black people are preferentially underinsured or not insured at all.

-education. unemployment is not a jobs problem. it’s an education problem. he’s increased max amounts for student loans and increased pell grants and made grants available to continuing ed adult students so that returning to school – especially at community colleges – for the unemployed – is essentially free.

-revised forebearance laws to ease student loan stress.

-put billions of dollars into SBA programs. unemployed? go get you an SBA loan and start a business.

some of the things he wanted to do that republicans squashed:

-highway infrastructure new deal: would have created like a million jobs for the next 20 years to rebuild the nation’s crumbling interstate roads.

-high speed rail. republicans just crushed this because they want you to drive and buy gas. would have created hundreds of thousands of jobs.

sorry for the long post. in a nutshell cornel west can eat a fat dick.

peace.

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