the politicians with him in this picture? Brown suit Sam Nunn?

We certainly were taken for a bunch of fools. I want my party back.

fun statements about President Obama to Bernie Sanders.

Seem fair?

and degrading language.

Bernie thought Cornel West made a great ambassador to black voters.

And you managed to drag a black scholar and activist's name through the mud in the process.

Good job!

I am so glad you're on Hillary's team, I would he embarrassed if you were a Bernie supporter.

he's a vain, petty, bitter, hateful man who's not afraid to use racist/race-baiting invective against other black people, including President Obama.

Which is why he's a favorite of white people on the left who hate Obama--he says things they could never get away with.

stuff like this:

You dismiss his record of fighting for racial justice simply because he doesn't play for your team.

If that isn't an example of white privilege I don't know what is.

So much fail in one thread, I fear it may collapse.

It's not my place to tell black folks what to say or how to advocate for racial justice.

It's not yours either.

against President Obama. (that claim is total gibberish, by the way--you should understand what white privilege is before using it in chatter like that)

That certainly implies you agree with his comments.

Here's some useful reading for you:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/03/03/1492931/-Why-black-voters-vote-the-way-they-do-and-advice-on-how-to-win-them

Just like it's male privilege to tell women we're being sexist when we're fighting for our lives.

I don't get to condemn Cornell West's tactics just like you don't get to tell women we need to watch outr mouths.

You want to censor him because it offends you.

White privilege.

it is very apparent you agree with West's comments, as you are lashing out quite angrily at criticism of his comments

P.S. When he insults President Obama, he's not fighting for civil rights, he's just being a dick.

White privilege.

every time a white person criticizes a black person.

since you have literally nothing to say other than repetitive chatter about "tone policing" and "white privilege" and "leave Cornel West alooooooone" you get to have the last word.

I may not like how he said it but it's not my place to judge him or condemn his message.

as if some in this thread like them some white supremacy?

I have found that the subject can hardly be discussed when one side is ....

Most curious.

Instead of reflecting on why West might feel and talk that way, all I am seeing is a knee-jerk reaction that seems to me to be a mere projection of hidden inner feelings.

The people who cherry pick his quotes and try to paint him as racist are very transparent.

Exposing a truth always brings out the worst from some people.

I like Obama, but expected more from him when it comes to the masses and what government could do for us. Seems West has a logical view worth considering.

Some allies get it and some people just pretend to be allies.

How could anyone be okay with that?

... You should hear Hillary's remarks on the Iraq War bill, both at the time she voted for it and after. Very good stuff. But, the bottom line is the vote, right?

I have heard Hillary's "remarks" on the Iraq war resolution, not only did she support it, she repeated Bush's lies in order to convince others to vote for it and endorsed the invasion in 2003. Then she went on to call what we did to the Iraqi people the "gift of freedom".

... It's just as easy to find a Hillary supporter explaining her votes as it is to find a Bernie supporter explaining his votes. In my view, they are both right. Both Bernie and Hillary have good liberal records. Bernie's may be better but it's not perfect (unless you like the Kosovo War, the Minutemen, the Stealth bomber, and assault weapons, too). Bernie supported the crime bill of 1994. Hillary didn't get to vote, of course. Bernie, like Hillary supported the 1998 bill to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and the 2001 bill to provide arms for fighting Iraq and Afghanistan. Hillary supported the 2003 Iraq War bill, but apologized. Perhaps you can find where Bernie apologizes, rather than rationalizes his choices.

At any rate, here's a summary of what Hillary said in 2003.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/02/hillary_clinton_told_the_truth_about_her_iraq_war_vote.html

“Even though the resolution before the Senate is not as strong as I would like in requiring the diplomatic route first … I take the president at his word that he will try hard to pass a United Nations resolution and seek to avoid war, if possible. Because bipartisan support for this resolution makes success in the United Nations more likely and war less likely—and because a good faith effort by the United States, even if it fails, will bring more allies and legitimacy to our cause—I have concluded, after careful and serious consideration, that a vote for the resolution best serves the security of our nation. If we were to defeat this resolution or pass it with only a few Democrats, I am concerned that those who want to pretend this problem will go away with delay will oppose any United Nations resolution calling for unrestricted inspections.”

black men in prison.

Talk about a rock and a hard place.

I realize that's how the game is played in Washington but when Democrats do it somehow it's worse. I expect it from Republicans.

Really? Bush? At his word? Really?

All rightie…

Bill Clinton became one of the most popular presidents among African Amercans in history. In the meantime, Bernie voted to dump Vermont nuclear waste near poor Latinos in Texas and give aide and comfort to supremacist militias "patrolling" the US/Mexico border.

This was during the 1992 primary.

A lot of people saw it saw as race baiting, trying to get southern white votes by showing he would keep the prisoners locked up. Tough on crime, that sort of thing. This was just right after the Clintons took a quick break from the campaign to fly back to Arkansas so Bill could oversee the execution of a brain damaged mentally ill man. Nasty.

Every time it gets brought up they disappear.

Horrified by Cornel West though. Strange priorities.

Their silence is deafening.

for the Democrat… the candidate running on the party for which I was a registered member.

It was around 1993 that I became heavily involved with prisoner justice and welfare justice and also Cop Watch in Oakland (prior to that my focus was mainly on abortion rights and violence against women reforms).

The "welfare reform" fight was when I first became aware of Clinton's Stone Mountain event. And I, mentally fell flat on my ass in aghast. This stunt to appeal to racists was a hair breadth different from Reagan's speech at Philadelphia, Mississippi where three civil rights activists were murdered.

Really. Stone Mountain. With your white privileged Senators standing with you and black imprisoned men forced to line up facing your back.

Welfare reform is when I changed by voter registration to "unaffiliated." How dare they expect my loyalty to a party that would harm the least amongst us. Harm them to the extent that childhood poverty is a national disgrace.

And Hillary actively lobbied for "welfare reform." She actively lobbied for what has resulted in a national disgrace.

Yeah Tom Harkin actually had flyers printed with this picture and distributed them in South Carolina.

I was a Clinton campaign intern during this. I thought he was god's gift. Oops no. This was definitely where the Democrats took a wrong turn. Welfare reform, war on drugs, filling up the jails, killing off American industry, etc etc.


And don't think this photo was an accident. Clinton understood the power of a photograph better than anyone. These guys were sending a message that they were going to get the Blacks under control. Here's a backup in case it disappears.

It is preposterous to believe that this group represents the true proportion of white/Black criminals in that state.

tough on crime laws. And I remember that developmentally disabled man he executed also.

Lord, what was I thinking to even vote for him once?

Also he seemed most electable. That's probably how they suckered us into it because we were desperate to win one after 12 years.

Don't get me wrong he did some good things but he also did a lot of Republican things. History has shown we would have been better off with any one of those other guys - Jerry Brown, Tom Harkin, etc.

it goes beyond broken windows and superpredators, beyond rolling back "the legacy of the 60s" against participatory democracy and letting people speak for themselves, to the fundamental tenet of neoliberalism, that people should be judged by their numbers--IQ, degree attainment, income

at the same time Clintonism coupled with the early 90s' newest left, the campus identitarianism that divides rather than unites, "she's not a man!" combining very easily with "he was just following his pecker"

If I had realized that he was like this this back then, I would never have voted for him. I was so lost in my own world. Ugh!

...that Bill Clinton signed.

So much for this meme that it was the product of the DLC.

It was the product of legislators like Bernie Sanders.