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Cornel West: President Obama Doesn’t Deserve To Be Sworn In With MLK’s Bible
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“You don’t play with Martin Luther King, Jr. and you don’t play with his people, said West. “By his people, I mean people of good conscience, fundamentally good people committed to peace and truth and justice, especially the Black tradition that produced it.
“All of the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing a Martin Luther King, Jr. generated a brother of such high decency and dignity that you don’t use his prophetic fire for a moment of presidential pageantry without understanding the challenge he represents to all of those in power regardless of what color they are.
“The righteous indignation of a Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a moment of political calculation. And that makes my blood boil. Why? Because Martin Luther King, Jr died…he died…for the three crimes against humanity that he was wrestling with. Jim Crow, traumatizing, terrorizing, stigmatizing Black people. Lynching, not just ‘segregation’ as the press likes to talk about.
“Second: Carpet bombing in Vietnam killing innocent people, especially innocent children, those are war crimes that Martin Luther King , Jr. was willing to die for. And thirdly, was poverty of all colors, he said it is a crime against humanity for the richest nation in the world to have so many of it’s precious children of all colors living in poverty and especially on the chocolate side of the nation, and on Indian reservations and Brown barrios and yellow slices and Black ghettos — we call them hoods now, but ghettos then.
“So I said to myself ain’t nothing wrong with putting your hand on the bible, even though the bible’s talking about justice, Jesus is talking about the least of these, but when you put it on Martin’s bible, I said ‘this is personal for me,’ because this is the tradition that I come out of.”
Is it NigNog day or is it MLK day?
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4 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT 4LOL ·I've got no problem with disagreeing with BO's policies, but when you personally attack your own for all White people to see and use against BO... it's pretty disgusting. I'm sure MLK would align himself more closely with BO than CW
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0 · Wack Feelings Nosign Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·“So I said to myself ain’t nothing wrong with putting your hand on the bible, even though the bible’s talking about justice, Jesus is talking about the least of these, but when you put it on Martin’s bible, I said ‘this is personal for me,’ because this is the tradition that I come out of.”
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1 · Wack Feelings Nosign 1Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·So i guess MLK family doesnt have the right to give Obama blessing for using there father bible.
I like Cornel, but this is just coming from a spiteful place, he still bitter from his perceived slight from Obama
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5 · Wack Feelings Nosign 5Cosign Ether GOAT LOL ·Agreed... he does care... but his tact is just wrong. He makes great points about the poor in the country that BO has clearly avoided in his policies. However, to say that BO has no right to use MLK's Bible is petty. We know that MLK wasn't a saint either. CWest has a habit of attacking people that he feels have slighted him (see Melissa Harris-Perry) and this is just another example of his smallness.
Attack BO's stance, or lack of one, on poverty in the urban communities. But a Bible??? C'mon Bruh... you lose credibility when you stoop to that level.
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