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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSanders could be the candidate Cornel West thought he was getting in Obama.
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/24/bernie_sanders_cornel_west_the_radical_alliance_that_could_change_everything/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflowSenator Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is already enjoying success that few could have predicted. Bernie is a big deal. Well, OK, if youre a white progressive hes a big deal. Otherwise, you may have no idea who he is, according to reporting this morning in the New York Times. The Times Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin write that black voters have shown little interest in [Sanders] and that [e]ven his own campaign advisers acknowledge that Mr. Sanders is virtually unknown to many African-Americans, an enormously important Democratic constituency.
But as his presidential campaign gains altitude and attention, Sanders may be on the way to securing the most difficult black progressive endorsement there is: the blessing of Professor Cornel West, one of Americas leading public intellectuals. Celebrity is rare in American academe, but the eccentric West (along with MITs Noam Chomsky) is something of a superstar scholar. Hes our Slavoj iek, but with far better hair and a sense of fashion.
Speaking with Grit TVs Laura Flanders in early June, the black academic icon was asked by the host if he will be supporting the increasingly popular candidate for president.
I love brother Bernie, West replied. He tells the truth about Wall Street. He really does.
But West, who feels burned and spurned by President Obama, his team, and the Democratic Party generally, then turned immediately to the specter of Hillary Clinton. Sanders, though an independent socialist in the Senate, is running for the Democratic Party ticket, and West worried aloud about submission to the party hegemon, Secretary Clinton.
Im not a Hillary Clinton fan at all, he said resolutely. So if he uses his power to hand it over to her Ill be deeply upset.
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Sanders could be the candidate Cornel West thought he was getting in Obama. (Original Post)
BigBearJohn
Jun 2015
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bravenak
(34,648 posts)1. Sigh
Where is the sigh emoticon? :sigh:
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)2. There ya go, Bernie. West is your new steady!
Hope it works out for ya.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)3. it's a nice change from "primaries can be permitted only if you swear loyalty to the final candidate
like it's us political junkies that are the cause of the low turnout