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  • Harvard University professor, author, and thinker Cornel West joins to discuss the unrest that's broken out across America in the wake of George Floyd's fatal arrest and the response from Trump and law enforcement officials. Aired on 6/1/2020.
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  • @queenme6930
    @queenme6930 Před 4 lety +227

    Professor Cornell West, is brilliant, every time I hear him speak I wish I was in his class just to gain a portion of his knowledge. Thank You @MSNBC Brian Williams ❤️

    • @michaelberry6443
      @michaelberry6443 Před 4 lety +6

      Williams was the first major anchor I have heard who seemed to understand that this is happening over more than racism. System problem, very longstanding and related to economic conditions.

    • @Rune-Thorne
      @Rune-Thorne Před 4 lety +14

      Echoes of Walt Whitman, he even looks similar. I always enjoy Professor West's insight. Poor white people need to pay attention, because they have way more in common with their black brothers and sisters than they do their white brethren.

    • @keplermission4947
      @keplermission4947 Před 4 lety

      Try to resist this 'materialism' link sfmkm.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_70.html

    • @ggtus4193
      @ggtus4193 Před 4 lety +2

      Togeather we stand devided we fall

    • @chrisgleason1344
      @chrisgleason1344 Před 4 lety +3

      I am in awe of Professor West every time. Every time. Truth and wisdom, personified. And a Love Supreme.

  • @staffordscholar7669
    @staffordscholar7669 Před 4 lety +422

    “One of the lowest moments in America.” I agree.

    • @patrickraney8831
      @patrickraney8831 Před 4 lety +5

      This chaos with all the violence and looting has set the unity of people back at least 20 years

    • @bentekarlberg3073
      @bentekarlberg3073 Před 4 lety +23

      Another low moment was when the orange thing became President of the USA.

    • @patrickraney8831
      @patrickraney8831 Před 4 lety +2

      @88Gibson LesPaul what kind of benefit would that be...he's been fighting lobbyists on both sides of the aisle since day one....it's hard to get any cooperation when the establishment and MSM defy every move he makes ....it's unfortunate this virus hit a great economy but his adversaries are ecstatic about it especially that it happened at the expense of the people....those millionairre politicians could care less since they have plenty of money while the average citizen will suffer...but I'm sure he'll bring the country back using his business skills...I don't know who else could...how you think he wants to divide the country proves there's a great deal you don't know ...he's done more for the black community than Obama

    • @yomama9567
      @yomama9567 Před 4 lety +4

      @@patrickraney8831 The inauguration of trump did that

    • @patrickraney8831
      @patrickraney8831 Před 4 lety

      @@yomama9567 did what...expose all the establishment for what they do to the American people ? ...like taxing them to fill their own pockets...how can they be multi millionaires on such an average salary...he's putting them ALL on blast both the Democrats and Republicans for their obvious corruption and THEY DON'T LIKE IT so they are trying everything including using the media to make him look bad...i have faith that eventually the truth will surface and law and order will prevail...exposing corruption was one of the main reasons he was elected

  • @VuDuGrrrrl8075
    @VuDuGrrrrl8075 Před 4 lety +59

    Brother West is the truth. I love him so much. He loves us so much.

  • @godivaone3891
    @godivaone3891 Před 4 lety +47

    I love Dr West. My cousin a professor at Rutgers introduced me to Dr West literature early in life. Thank you for educated me in black history and culture.

    • @rickz3543
      @rickz3543 Před 4 lety

      Brainwashed. Mija you don’t need Dr Cornell west you need Jesus Christ, God in human flesh...

  • @andreag7822
    @andreag7822 Před 4 lety +421

    Dr Cornel West, what a powerful speaker you are sir. 🇬🇧

  • @dryhumorfoe8275
    @dryhumorfoe8275 Před 4 lety +320

    I haven't seen Dr West in a while. Good to see him again. He is one highly intelligent guy with a real beating heart!

    • @davidhollenshead4892
      @davidhollenshead4892 Před 4 lety +1

      He is getting old, so expect him to have only twice the energy for his age of 67...

    • @DoyaunEvans
      @DoyaunEvans Před 4 lety +1

      Because he would've called out Biden...

  • @goldenblue3865
    @goldenblue3865 Před 4 lety +39

    He’s a heavy Brother ...Smart ... Intelligent beyond measures 🧐 I have been following Cornel West for over 25 years🧐 Right on my Brother .... Black Power.... Through The Fire....😕

  • @unplayedpiano7039
    @unplayedpiano7039 Před 4 lety +75

    “All You Got Is The Cockroaches”. The Way He Said It, With Depth, Is The Heart Of Truth.

    • @vana4054
      @vana4054 Před 4 lety +4

      We're already at two minutes to midnight.... He knows.

    • @geralddecaire6164
      @geralddecaire6164 Před 4 lety +2

      The Red River You just said a racist thing. So if you really want to know if there's any white racists you're familiar with, just look in a mirror.

    • @darkcrystal8646
      @darkcrystal8646 Před 4 lety +1

      @The Red River
      In reality.....We are all colored unless you happen to be albino ~ Jane Elliot
      Those who rule over us are the ones who keep stirring the pot (corrupt corporate run governments all over Earth, deeply embedded in America)
      In 60 yrs I met 4 people light skinned who are racists & zero dark skinned or any other culture
      My enemies are anyone, anywhere who is not promoting Universal Peace or disclosing ETs
      ✌❤🌏

    • @geralddecaire6164
      @geralddecaire6164 Před 4 lety +1

      The Red River Oh, I see, Native Americans can't be racist. Let me write that down. The original point still stands so go look at that mirror

    • @jeroenvantellingen5491
      @jeroenvantellingen5491 Před 4 lety +1

      @The Red River "I'm a white man" & "I'm not white. I'm Native". You don't seem to be very trustable if you contradict yourself in just two comments

  • @idillard
    @idillard Před 4 lety +55

    Yes, yes, yes my brother! Thank you for always speaking the truth! You "were nice" by saying "we are losing our democracy" because I am close to believing we have all ready lost it. Yeah we need a real revolution! A moral revolution! NO JUSTICE/NO PEACE!!!

  • @jgcaba3173
    @jgcaba3173 Před 4 lety +705

    I am not religious,but this man got me screaming hallelujah

  • @hoseamurray5479
    @hoseamurray5479 Před 4 lety +58

    This man is a blessing 🙏
    And need to run 🏃‍♂️ for president
    Because he is for everyone..

  • @elizabethjames9245
    @elizabethjames9245 Před 4 lety +14

    Thank you Dr. West for speaking truth to power.‼✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼✊

  • @briantyson7744
    @briantyson7744 Před 4 lety +307

    Dr. West is one of the greatest Americans ever.
    He is so brilliant, well spoken. He is a gentleman and just great.

    • @temibossgaming8981
      @temibossgaming8981 Před 4 lety +8

      oneraceonedestiny u are a fooool oloshi olriburuku were

    • @briantyson7744
      @briantyson7744 Před 4 lety +1

      @oneraceonedestiny I have been to the Art Institute of Chicago.
      Therefore it is no chance I am a fool.

    • @CoroDan
      @CoroDan Před 4 lety +3

      @oneraceonedestiny You are the fool...more like one race one density! Thick as two short planks.

    • @RationallyRogue
      @RationallyRogue Před 4 lety

      @Jamtommy1 Care to explain please?

    • @Tippy2forU
      @Tippy2forU Před 4 lety +5

      Do not engage with low frequency dwellers. It is a waste of time to dwell in depths of those frequencies. You accomplish nothing when you do so. Misery loves company. Do not live in that misery with those who chose to feed at the bottom.

  • @GregA387
    @GregA387 Před 4 lety +267

    Out of everything that I have seen on CZcams or television, this is the most intelligent person I have seen and heard about the current situation in this country. Thank you sir! It is a time of reckoning and we need to stand up to tyranny and stay together. 🙏☮️

    • @soniagodlieb1896
      @soniagodlieb1896 Před 4 lety +4

      I KNOW YOU ARE WHITE .THANK YOU AND AMEN.

    • @michaelberry6443
      @michaelberry6443 Před 4 lety +4

      Watch him on CNN, it's even better than this. czcams.com/video/cs3jdyfx_fo/video.html

    • @Koyasi78
      @Koyasi78 Před 4 lety +3

      James Baldwin. You're welcome.

    • @kevinheintz4046
      @kevinheintz4046 Před 4 lety +5

      Agreed. Cornel West is America's most important moral philosopher (no shade at Chomsky--he's the Dean of modern US geo-socio-political analysis).

    • @IMSiegfried
      @IMSiegfried Před 4 lety +2

      You have to check out Trevor Noah's commentary too. Has 6.7 million views thus far.

  • @mathieunorry
    @mathieunorry Před 4 lety +140

    This isn't an interview it's a soliloquy and it's exactly what needs to be heard

    • @williathenarcisse2117
      @williathenarcisse2117 Před 4 lety +3

      He be great president ,I DNT think he want deal with so corrupt he such a calm spiritual person

    • @TheNoblot
      @TheNoblot Před 4 lety +1

      GET REAL HOLLYWOOD🧦 soon nobody will be able to Breathe😷🤕🤒 since BOLSONARO & TRUMP hope to erase the amazone forest to the ground 💡🔦 ALL LIVES MATTER / 💞 Black Lives Matter GET REAL 💓BOLSONARO & TRUMP on their wild killing 1492 plan of blacks: NATIVE/ AMERICANS/ Amazonian aborigines / afro Americans / holocauste 1492 realm 💡🔦 ALL LIVES MATTER / 💞 Black Lives Matter GET REAL 💓

    • @thatpsychologychick
      @thatpsychologychick Před 4 lety

      This is so true

    • @THeiss-O-I-C-U-8-1-2-B-4
      @THeiss-O-I-C-U-8-1-2-B-4 Před 4 lety

      It's dstill 50% bullchit. And you are still to arrogantly ignorant to see that .

  • @yoganandarita
    @yoganandarita Před 4 lety +73

    While at Harvard I met him.... he’s real genuinely real!

  • @Eyesthatray
    @Eyesthatray Před 4 lety +110

    what a beautiful way that professor spoke. So educated so knowledgeable so spirit-full and so loving all at the same time

    • @Eyesthatray
      @Eyesthatray Před 4 lety +2

      Yo Mama nou

    • @Tippy2forU
      @Tippy2forU Před 4 lety +6

      Don't engage those who choose to spend this life in misery and hate. Do not engage in low frequency verbal rubbish. Continue to be who you are and don't let low frequency dwellers shift your crown.

  • @andrewmasc3174
    @andrewmasc3174 Před 4 lety +72

    I love how he's bringing up Chomsky and John Dewey on MSNBC

  • @harrietpage1863
    @harrietpage1863 Před 4 lety +18

    Cornell West! My God, everybody must hear this; it covers every thing we need to hear! Please keep talkling.

    • @artemioolivas5689
      @artemioolivas5689 Před 4 lety +1

      If only everyone could have this level of consciousness...

    • @artemioolivas5689
      @artemioolivas5689 Před 3 lety

      @Joseph Johnson Cornel West seems to be pretty forthcoming about his political views. If he was an anarchist as your reference to Emma Goldman implies, I have no doubt that he would just come out and say it. His penchant for clarity and transparency leaves little room to think that he is deceptive in that regard.
      Additionally, anarchy itself, though often dismissed and irrationally perceived as some immediate, chaotic, and violent dismantling of a nation's political, social, economic, cultural institutions etc., is reductive at best. Chomsky’s On Anarchism dispels that notion by suggesting that anarchism is a principled vision of a politico-social landscape in which institutions need to justify their authority and existence to the people they subordinate and serve. In this context, the people have the right and authority to dismantle and rebuild if institutions are not functioning for the benefit of the community. He also goes on to criticize and dismiss the idea of anarchy equating to a push for the immediate dismantling of all institutions as outlandish. To this point, he asserts:
      “In my opinion, the immediate goal of even committed anarchists should be to defend some state institutions, while helping to pry them open to more meaningful public participation...There are practical problems of tomorrow on which peoples lives depend and while defending these kinds of [structures] is by no means the ultimate end we should be pursuing, in my view, we still have to face the problems that are right on the horizon and which seriously affect human lives. I don’t think those things can simply be forgotten because they might not fit within some radical slogan that reflects a deeper vision of a future society…I think that it is completely realistic and rational to work within structures to which you are opposed…if you just want to be pure and say, “I’m against power, period,” well okay, say, “I’m against the federal government.” But that’s just to divorce yourself from any human concerns in my view. And I don’t think that’s a reasonable stance for an anarchist or anyone to take”.
      Even if West was an anarchist, he is on record many times saying that he will vote for Biden even though the democratic nominee is a lot of the same. Thus his would-be anarchist leanings are neither deceptive nor anything to be feared because they are much in line with Chomsky's principled, long term, rational, and workable vision of social change, a view that acknowledges the importance of participating now in the current structures we do have.

    • @zenemachine2116
      @zenemachine2116 Před 3 lety

      Please keep him talking he is our last hope

  • @WitchDoctor87
    @WitchDoctor87 Před 4 lety +56

    I'm not a MSNBC fan, however I love Cornel West and I'm glad they're giving this platform.

    • @larrygarland802
      @larrygarland802 Před 4 lety

      Yes! The POVERTY PIMPS need a bigger platform.

    • @WitchDoctor87
      @WitchDoctor87 Před 4 lety +1

      @Joseph Johnson How so? Shows some evidence behind your judgements.

    • @WitchDoctor87
      @WitchDoctor87 Před 4 lety +1

      @@larrygarland802 again no evidence of any kind just empty statements of hate

    • @WitchDoctor87
      @WitchDoctor87 Před 4 lety

      @Joseph Johnson ok, I cant stand Obama or Kenye West. However, not sure how that makes Cornel bad... that's like everyone who in the past voted for Obama and dont support him now are bad. We didnt know Obama would flop, so I'm not holding that to Cornel

    • @WitchDoctor87
      @WitchDoctor87 Před 4 lety

      @Parsival Ritter 555 No, I voted Obama then Killary because Bernie got screwed. I also regret voting Obama and Killary

  • @jessicanorton5647
    @jessicanorton5647 Před 4 lety +161

    I absolutely adore Professor West. More from him please- Our country NEEDS him. He is an American treasure.

  • @mlfclevel
    @mlfclevel Před 4 lety +278

    We need more Cornel West.

    • @ca6177
      @ca6177 Před 4 lety +1

      We do!

    • @ca6177
      @ca6177 Před 4 lety

      Jamtommy1 you say this why? 😵

    • @drphot6050
      @drphot6050 Před 4 lety

      And younger ones with this similar intellect and powerful speaking.

    • @gregpitts5157
      @gregpitts5157 Před 4 lety

      mlfclevel for what?

    • @Gemini530
      @Gemini530 Před 4 lety

      You need more of his kind? Move to Africa.

  • @rubyruf
    @rubyruf Před 4 lety +20

    I’m glad someone has HOPE!

  • @anniebanana3698
    @anniebanana3698 Před 4 lety +30

    It's Sunday but I didn't realize I was coming to church... I ain't mad about it.

  • @lexas1
    @lexas1 Před 4 lety +357

    This was the best speech I have heard in a long time.

    • @siouxrose7766
      @siouxrose7766 Před 4 lety +3

      As a complement to it, check out Chris Hedges article published today at Commondreams dot org.

    • @michaelberry6443
      @michaelberry6443 Před 4 lety +1

      He was better on Anderson Cooper actually czcams.com/video/cs3jdyfx_fo/video.html

    • @siouxrose7766
      @siouxrose7766 Před 4 lety +2

      @@michaelberry6443--I like to see them on Democracy Now. But I will check out your link.

    • @michaelberry6443
      @michaelberry6443 Před 4 lety +1

      @@siouxrose7766 he was good on Amy goodman but it was a panel

    • @alz123alz
      @alz123alz Před 4 lety

      WE HAVE TO CHANGE HOW WE HANDLE AND CONTROL PANDEMICS. WE HAVE THE SAME PROTOCOL FOR CORONA VIRUS THAT WAS INITIATED FOR THE 1919 SPANISH FLU.. SAD THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IS TOOOOO SLOW. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL INVENTED THE TELEPHONE IN 1876. SENT HIS FIRST OFFICIAL TELEPHONE MESSAGE IN THE 1900s . LOOK HOW FAR COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY HAVE COME. SMART PHONES, SPACE SATELLITES. Shame on the RESEARCH profession . SHAME, SHAME, SHAME GOD HAVE PROVIDED ANSWERS WHERE HIS CHILDREN DON’T HAVE TO CLOSE DOWN THE ECONOMY AND BE DEPRIVED OF HIS BLESSING. AMERICAN RESEARCHERS ARE TOOOOOOOO ARROGANT TO TAKE THEM. GOD MADE US IN HIS IMAGE. WE ARE SUPPOSE TO BE SMARTER THAN VIRUSES.
      REPLY

  • @rodsimpson3963
    @rodsimpson3963 Před 4 lety +109

    I love this man....he gets it.

  • @anastasiarogers7287
    @anastasiarogers7287 Před 4 lety +42

    Man i wish i could just sit down with Cornell West and listen and record his knowledge all day

    • @anonymoushuman8344
      @anonymoushuman8344 Před 4 lety

      I wish I could sit down with him and listen to records.

    • @rickz3543
      @rickz3543 Před 4 lety +1

      Why??! He is race baiting sell out. He hates black people, that’s why he is always telling you stupids lies

    • @jasthomas4291
      @jasthomas4291 Před 4 lety

      You like the tickles in your ears, don't you?
      He's fooling you

    • @anastasiarogers7287
      @anastasiarogers7287 Před 4 lety

      @@jasthomas4291 nope but im sure u do

    • @anastasiarogers7287
      @anastasiarogers7287 Před 4 lety

      @@rickz3543 so me prove that he hate black people

  • @mahirrahman7
    @mahirrahman7 Před 4 lety +54

    Bernie deserves to be our nominee, Dr. West and Bernie should run together on independent ticket

    • @MrMatt-cm6do
      @MrMatt-cm6do Před 4 lety +4

      I would vote for that ticket! It even sounds good.
      Vote Sanders-West

    • @jensharpe2662
      @jensharpe2662 Před 4 lety +3

      Mahir Rahman: I agree with you . BUT. if Bernie Supporters does not go out and vote for who ever the nominee is then you will be Re: Electing the current occupant of the White House.
      I believe that if Barnie supporters had supported Hilary (wither) you like her on not; He would not be there.
      PLEASE DONT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN.

    • @martinko4086
      @martinko4086 Před 4 lety

      @@jensharpe2662 , i came to USA from Socialist country / where i lived 22 years/ , because i do hate socialism !! IF you like socialism it is your turn to move out from here .

    • @jensharpe2662
      @jensharpe2662 Před 4 lety

      @@martinko4086 I haven't got a clue what you are replying to, did I mentioned anything about Socialism. read the post again before you take offence.

    • @thevoid4060
      @thevoid4060 Před 3 lety

      voting for that ticket would be the proudest moment of my life

  • @ravipeiris4388
    @ravipeiris4388 Před 4 lety +109

    I love this man, sharp as any man can be.
    Ravi Peiris M.D.

    • @soniagodlieb1896
      @soniagodlieb1896 Před 4 lety +3

      Thank you.Ravi

    • @boringopr4369
      @boringopr4369 Před 4 lety

      Thank you

    • @tulayamalavenapi4028
      @tulayamalavenapi4028 Před 4 lety

      krishna.org/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-original-1972-edition-free-pdf-download/
      Henry David Thoreau wrote "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogenic philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."
      Ralph Waldo Emerson said this about the Bhagavad-Gita: "I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent,the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."
      We can add Dr West to the list of modern American philosophical thinkers!
      Please read the immortal Bhagavad-gita As It Is, which I would not be surprised if Cornel is familiar with.

  • @CurtTweedle
    @CurtTweedle Před 4 lety +438

    We need more Cornel West. Wisdom is so missing from public discourse.

    • @falconquest2068
      @falconquest2068 Před 4 lety +6

      Ya think? #defeatstupid2020

    • @MHO999999
      @MHO999999 Před 4 lety +14

      Dr. West brings knowledge, wisdom, love, righteous anger and compassion to the table. Everything we need in this moment.

    • @timshimme5478
      @timshimme5478 Před 4 lety +15

      For real!! He doesn't play lesser evil games or my team is better than yours. He speaks the truth and stands for allllll people who are oppressed

    • @dodemonclear9095
      @dodemonclear9095 Před 4 lety

      WEST IS LIKE ANY OTHER. BUT FOS!!

    • @rubricscube_
      @rubricscube_ Před 4 lety +2

      @@dodemonclear9095 Really? How? I'll try to be respectful, but without knowing more, I want to call you a buffoon.

  • @Elizabeth__Smith
    @Elizabeth__Smith Před 4 lety +10

    This is why I supported Bernie as a middle class white woman, EVERYTHING HE SAID IS TRUE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯♥️✌🏻

    • @TheNoblot
      @TheNoblot Před 4 lety +2

      truth only exist for those that believe / America is a Janus democracy two faces of the same political party democrats are = to republicans as republicans are = to decorates 😥😉😘

    • @Elizabeth__Smith
      @Elizabeth__Smith Před 4 lety +1

      Dave Best that’s so funny, if I have no brains for economics why is it that I’m retired at 36, financially set for life, and I just made $200,000 in the stock market hedging it 🤔 oh yeah and the best part is because of trumps tax cuts I barely have to pay any taxes on that. Have fun with your menial life 🤣 People like you are so stupid, you’ll eat up any garbage that the media pushes down your throat. That’s what I did for a living for 11 years in New York City. So you can have any opinion you want, I’m gonna laugh all the way to the bank while you enjoy your miserable life, you don’t want to help yourself don’t, doesn’t bother me a single bit 💁🏼‍♀️😂

    • @TheNoblot
      @TheNoblot Před 4 lety

      @@Elizabeth__Smith the problem is how long will it last/ (temporary power ) / on the wheels of change everything goes up them goes down I recommend "the rule of the game" a nice film by jean Renoir you will enjoy it is all about running free to the bank castels & all that implies 🤗🍾🍾🍯🍮before ww2 and the Weimar republic. instructive 😉😘

    • @TheNoblot
      @TheNoblot Před 4 lety

      this is another nice film all about Park avenue / is just a game 🤗 my men GEOFREY💗
      czcams.com/video/fcz8z7ensRM/video.html

    • @Elizabeth__Smith
      @Elizabeth__Smith Před 4 lety

      La ϟϟ אני יהודי, וזה מצב מטופש

  • @alishadennis17
    @alishadennis17 Před 4 lety +3

    Thanks for having doctor Cornell West teaching at Princeton college!!!!. He is insightful, passionate & speaks truth to power. He has seen so many social changes with social issues in American!! How big are the events & the changes over centuries have been..

  • @casualultra92
    @casualultra92 Před 4 lety +270

    ''All you got is the cockroaches...''
    Preach brother Cornel

    • @crowntours58
      @crowntours58 Před 4 lety +2

      MSNBC one of the biggest cockroaches along with CNN and FOX

    • @john-smith.
      @john-smith. Před 4 lety +7

      @@crowntours58 Yet you're here.....that's why you have no friends.

    • @crowntours58
      @crowntours58 Před 4 lety

      @@john-smith. Haha you make your bed you lie in it, lie in that you as a country let the corrupt leaders stand aside wile CCP Chinazes steal your technology, let the banisters lute and destroy you standard of living and education and again in the last months lute 5 Trillion dollard\s of tax payers money? Haha mate you need a check up from the neck up and remove your stinking thinking as your truth decay is your problem not mine! The truth may hurt but is never killed anyone bozo

    • @crowntours58
      @crowntours58 Před 4 lety

      @rana pipien Haha go back at the moon time America faced fact of what George Carlin has said, "your screwed" ... you could not change things for the infighting you have not got the guts to face yourself. Chinazi with round eyes haha

    • @crowntours58
      @crowntours58 Před 4 lety +1

      @rana pipien Show your self Rana Pipien and come out and fight like a girl!

  • @rodmackinnon4044
    @rodmackinnon4044 Před 4 lety +120

    Love that he mentioned professor Chomsky. Would also love to hear his thoughts as well.

    • @karencontestabile6064
      @karencontestabile6064 Před 4 lety +1

      I heard Noam Chomsky on Grayzone recently...He was rather vague...Disappointing...

    • @andrewmasc3174
      @andrewmasc3174 Před 4 lety +4

      @Rod if you type in 'Trumps ideology consists of two letters me' on youtube there's a new chomsky interview where he talks about the protests

    • @siouxrose7766
      @siouxrose7766 Před 4 lety +8

      Amy Goodman has had recent interviews with Noam Chomsky. He has designated today's Republican party as one of history's most dangerous entities. And he is right. Of course, he has the eloquent resuscitation of recent and past history to back up that assertion.

    • @rodmackinnon4044
      @rodmackinnon4044 Před 4 lety +4

      @@siouxrose7766 agreed. I will search for these interviews to watch, I'm certain his sentiments remain the same. A great, and intelligent person of unwavering principle.

    • @michaelberry6443
      @michaelberry6443 Před 4 lety +2

      I don't think msnbc has ever or would ever have chomsky on.

  • @patriciawalker7529
    @patriciawalker7529 Před 4 lety +49

    I met him in public years ago; he's just as dynamic in person or on a recorded message, in the media--print or otherwise.

    • @deborahrose8621
      @deborahrose8621 Před 4 lety

      I bet. He's been on Bill Maher many times. I always get a kick out of him.

    • @mr.optimistic1149
      @mr.optimistic1149 Před 4 lety

      He is completely insane. If you are in awe of him, you need a psychiatric room next to his!

  • @luvrnu3808
    @luvrnu3808 Před 4 lety +8

    When Intellect and Passion and Love and Music merge you get Dr Cornel West 💎 Peace and Blessings

  • @DivaD-nk2bj
    @DivaD-nk2bj Před 4 lety +54

    Wow, I’ve never seen this gentleman before - he’s incredible, so charismatic and captivating. Sending love and solidarity to 🇺🇸 from 🇬🇧

    • @karencontestabile6064
      @karencontestabile6064 Před 4 lety

      He was active at OWS!

    • @batboy3746
      @batboy3746 Před 4 lety +3

      He's in 'The Matrix'. 🤣....no seriously.

    • @nicolebrown1927
      @nicolebrown1927 Před 4 lety +4

      Hi my brothers and sisters across the pond. We love you.

    • @shogunMR
      @shogunMR Před 4 lety +2

      Check out his interview with Joe Rogan here on CZcams it is literally the best thing I've ever please please check it out and watch it twice because he's so knowledgeable and smart you have to watch it a few times just to get what he

    • @Kalik8000
      @Kalik8000 Před 4 lety

      He's written many books. Look him up.

  • @chrisandrew852
    @chrisandrew852 Před 4 lety +111

    Professor West, you're and eloquent, intelligent and passionate man sir.

    • @bingo1232
      @bingo1232 Před 4 lety

      ... and you're and eloquent and intelligent and passionate, and an eloquent man sir (grammar forever & ever..... let us be clear and be heard!!! Yeah!!!!! Deliver the WORD.... hot, fresh, and full of vitality. I LOVE a good meaning!!!!!!💗!!!!!)

  • @jbones1987
    @jbones1987 Před 4 lety +17

    solid interview tactic, just let Dr. West speak.

  • @sabrinajohnson6138
    @sabrinajohnson6138 Před 4 lety +12

    I love this man as well...

  • @karencontestabile6064
    @karencontestabile6064 Před 4 lety +42

    Dr. West is someone to listen to! Been listening since OWS! Our contemporary Frederick Douglass!

  • @josephmichael2096
    @josephmichael2096 Před 4 lety +137

    I’m glad to see that stations such as CNN and MSNBC are allowing Dr. West on air.

    • @yeshuaischrist9951
      @yeshuaischrist9951 Před 4 lety +3

      OF COURSE THEY DO , IT SUPPORTS THEIR AGENDA.

    • @victorsempiana7590
      @victorsempiana7590 Před 4 lety +6

      well said, now it is time for human beings , like Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Noam Chomsky, Jimmy Dora, Peter Joseph, Ralph Nadia, Glen Greenwald, Aaron Mate', Max Blumthal, so many more,,

    • @Lostinjp
      @Lostinjp Před 4 lety +3

      Mr. Chapo Martinez how is the weather in Kalliningrad?

    • @blockthis08
      @blockthis08 Před 4 lety +1

      ​@@yeshuaischrist9951 Who supports the conservative Agenda? Trump's non-substantiated tweets? Yelling fake news 24/7 so nothing is ever rigorously debated?

    • @blockthis08
      @blockthis08 Před 4 lety +1

      @Gold & Diamond Mind Gold & Diamond Mind Dr. Claude makes alot of sense but he just seems to complain too much. Dr. West at least can give you an overview of what's happening on ALL sides and a general solution.

  • @salmonkill7
    @salmonkill7 Před 4 lety +6

    Dr. Cornel West speaks some truth but as a 60 year old high school Science teacher in America I have this to say...
    Education is your ticket to rise above for all our brothers and sisters in our Great Nation. That said have any of you stepped foot into our school systems lately? Morgan Freeman played an inner city high school principal in crisis in the movie "Lean on Me". At the time the Morgan Freeman movie aired the crisis schools were limited to a few inner city schools, but more and more our schools are roting from the inside out all over America. Teachers are frustrated and leaving in droves. Students throw a fit and trash classrooms. Back when I went to school you had to show teachers respect and if you got out of line you got paddled HARD WITH A WOODEN PADDLE!! If you misbehaved at school, you got paddled at school and faced worse at home! Try to teach without any attention span or respect for the teacher!
    All American brothers and sisters we need to take back our education system its been deteriorating for decades. If a student acts up punish him. Has anyone gone to the grocery store lately? The twenty something checkers can't put a sentence together to save their life, and they can't perform basic math.
    Sadly it's an election year so we have to listen to Democrats and Republicans being AWEFUL TO EACH OTHER. Its gotten so bad I can't stand to listen to either side!
    Fix the schools NOW but this doesnt happen with GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION and $$ ( although schools need adequate resources to teach) it requires us TO BECOME BETTER PARENTS!! Do what my parents did for me, READ TO YOUR CHILDREN as soon as they can speak. Take them to a church, synagogue, or mosque. Make your children work outside helping older people, or handicapped people. Love your neighbors, all your neighbors regardless of color or cultural backgrounds, this is what my parents taught me!!
    Just watch this COMMENT won't garner a single thumbs up! No one these days wants to take any personal responsibility. As my mama taught me, if you POINT A FINGER AT SOMEONE ELSE, THERE IS 3 FINGERS POINTING BACK AT YOU! Sure the USA needs some work, no one can stomach what happened to George Floyd, but true change begins with ourselves...

    • @elisetape2992
      @elisetape2992 Před 4 lety

      This is the best reflection of the situation, much better than Dr. West, who didn’t bring solutions to the table. You have brought the solution and democracy can flourish when we study enough to bring intelligent analysis and solutions. Read to your children, love and help your neighbors. This is where peace starts.

    • @chillhomie7
      @chillhomie7 Před 4 lety

      But the school system fails us. If people were educated about races and cultures at a young age. Black kids grow up with an inferiority complex and whites grow up with a superiority complex. Black kids don't even know about African kingdoms like nubia, mail, great Zimbabwe, they think that slavery is the start of their history.

    • @salmonkill7
      @salmonkill7 Před 4 lety

      @@chillhomie7 Your absolutely correct and I feel very badly about that! There are no easy answers we have to all do the best we can.
      My grandparents grew up in Bessemer, Alabama fairly poor white family in a predominantly black community and last I check Birmingham in over 90% black. My grandfather worked side by side as a working man along side a predominantly black work crew at a steel mill.
      I stand by my educational views. We have to improve our school systems, provide equal opportunities for the best and the brightest, and improve our communities. I teach at a private school and we do alot of service projects for the community.
      All we can do is our best. In the end we have to critically look at ourselves and try to become part of the solution and not part of the problem. Suggestion... If you understand some African history offer to come in and give a talk to students!! Teach them what you know! I have guest speakers all the time.
      I do agree we all have along way to go yet....

  • @darnellbarnetted.s.3649
    @darnellbarnetted.s.3649 Před 3 lety +1

    Amen to Dr. Cornell West for speaking truth to power. So sad he wasn't on Joy Reid or Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. We need more Dr. West on the news!! Keep fighting my brother and blessings to you and your family!!😀😀😀

  • @billynichiporuk
    @billynichiporuk Před 4 lety +67

    THIS MAN IS AN AMAZING EXAMPLE OF THE POTENTIAL OF US ALL.! GOS BLESS FOR THE GIFT OF CORNEL WEST!

    • @thomastucker5686
      @thomastucker5686 Před 4 lety

      God is just a bad idea, as Cornell pointed out, the religion of Pilot. People all around the world claim this god or that god and this demon and that demon. All I see on this planet is good and bad humans. People have to decide for themselves, do they wish to be a force for good or a force for bad and Jesus has nothing to do with it. Humans decide their fate, not a god character from a story told thousands of years ago. We just have gullible humans who pretend their own reality, which goes against the black community every single time. Religion is a spoke on the wheel of corruption. Trump is president because abortion. Because simple minded folks are too stupid to realize abortion laws only affect poor mostly black women. Wealthy folks can drive or fly to a state that has humanity in mind and not Jesus to get an abortion. It is only poor folks stuck with a larger family than they can support. Politicians are smarter than religious folks, they know abortion laws don't touch them or their families. Wealthy folks can vote for these politicians and know the stupid people will be so happy about the abortion laws, they won't see all the stuff that takes away from themselves. Religious folks always vote against their own interests pretending Jesus would be happy with their voting. There is nothing impressive about humans who pretend a god is real, in fact it's just the opposite. The people who are impressive are humanists and concerned about taking care of their fellow humans, not some pretend tortured to death Jew who allegedly controls this planet with god magic. We have uneducated humans who don't seem to grow up mentally and are stuck in the religious stories of their childhood. The god idea is dead, let's talk about our future.

    • @zulublack1212
      @zulublack1212 Před 4 lety

      Fk cornel west he is part of reason we have donald, I don't even have the respect to capitalize his name, him and jessy jackson are clowns, that's why the majority of black folks don't respect either, let them stay on the side of donald trump and bernie the bigot, and when those wytepipo turn on them, don't come running back to us😐

    • @billynichiporuk
      @billynichiporuk Před 4 lety

      @@thomastucker5686 We all have the freedom to seek guidance for ourselves. My personal definition on god does not align with what white people run around preaching. I am a white person who understands how deep the systemic cultural roots of oppression run, most of which have roots in christianity and organized religion. I also believe that through my own understanding of god that we are all interconnected and that we all affect one another. Real change starts when every individual chooses greater understanding for themselves and then takes the responsibility to make those changes. I absolutely believe that we all choose our own fate but also know that the hardest challenge is to hold each other accountable.

    • @billynichiporuk
      @billynichiporuk Před 4 lety +1

      @@zulublack1212 Thank you for pointing this out, I really respect and value what you have to say. I am a white person who is also fed up with the societal structure of white domination, white capitalism and white privilege. I don't understand why the global minority holds the most power. It's time to change that and we need strong people of all colours to balance this. Us white people aren't doing a very good job.

  • @_RockShine
    @_RockShine Před 4 lety +198

    I love this man when ever he speaks 💙

    • @charleswarren1901
      @charleswarren1901 Před 4 lety

      So you're suffering from dementia, too. Good luck with that.

    • @_RockShine
      @_RockShine Před 4 lety +1

      @@charleswarren1901 the best answer from me to someone like you, who had the same rude evil attitude. You are already fading away. The new generations are praying for your end. So that there will be a better world, with there are less people Charles Warren.

    • @_RockShine
      @_RockShine Před 4 lety +1

      @@charleswarren1901 the best response from me to someone like you, who had the same rude attitude. And say. you are already fading. The new generations are praying for your end. So that there will be a better world, with smaller people of your kind

    • @ogjohnson3093
      @ogjohnson3093 Před 4 lety +1

      America will never have spiritual awakening. Ethics and Morals was destroyed many many many many yrs ago; and it started from the head (U.S.A GOVERNMENT)

    • @johngalt2222
      @johngalt2222 Před 4 lety

      What about when
      He doesn't speak????

  • @vanessamurphy6251
    @vanessamurphy6251 Před 3 lety

    I watched the video with my son with Professor West and Anderson Cooper. I was touched and my son was inspired. Professor West keep doing what your doing. We hear you. You are truly an inspiration.

  • @Ignatius98
    @Ignatius98 Před 4 lety +11

    I love how he includes all colors in this country and even including poor Whites in America too! This racism affects us all as a people!

  • @taralyamcdonough87
    @taralyamcdonough87 Před 4 lety +46

    Love Cornel West, I love how he speaks!

  • @gernblanston5018
    @gernblanston5018 Před 4 lety +32

    This man is Amazing

  • @dorothywright9344
    @dorothywright9344 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank You Dr. West! May God continue to Bless You!

  • @c.t.murray3632
    @c.t.murray3632 Před 4 lety +30

    I love hearing from Cornel West because he's clear in his message and he's intelligent in his delivery.

    • @paulrevere8729
      @paulrevere8729 Před 4 lety

      What is his message? Give us the causational effects of his ideology?

    • @c.t.murray3632
      @c.t.murray3632 Před 4 lety

      @@wrath_of_thrawn2163 What?

  • @lianalonge1984
    @lianalonge1984 Před 4 lety +183

    "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK, March 13, 1962
    "You have to dominate. If you don't dominate, you're wasting your time. They're going to run over you. You're going to look like a bunch of jerks." -- Trump, June 1, 2020
    Need I say more?

  • @loveja1
    @loveja1 Před 4 lety +53

    I could listen to him all day

  • @viviansimes3630
    @viviansimes3630 Před 3 lety +3

    THESE WORDS OF .....CORNELL WEST....
    NEVER GETS OLD AND THEY WILL NEVER .......DIE..... ♾️ THE TRUTH OF
    INFINITY....A BEGANNING WITHOUT A ENDING!!!!!!!♾️♾️♾️♾️♾️!!!!!!!!!!

  • @philpottkentucky4802
    @philpottkentucky4802 Před 4 lety +24

    When is MSNBC going to stop blacklisting Noam Chomsky and have him on?

    • @MrMatt-cm6do
      @MrMatt-cm6do Před 4 lety +3

      It’s insane they don’t have Chomsky on. His opinions are apparently not welcome and purposely ignored by all news channels. Any guess as to why is not a satisfying answer.
      The most horrifying of answers would be that he is ignored by the people who ‘manufacture consent’ precisely because he talks about it.

    • @lilybaytoday
      @lilybaytoday Před 4 lety

      They would vaporize

  • @marcosjuarez7809
    @marcosjuarez7809 Před 4 lety +96

    To Professor Cornell West, I think that you are right in the ways of how you expressed eloquently about the problem with institutional racism in America.

  • @ludmilacox6579
    @ludmilacox6579 Před 4 lety +123

    Dr Cornell West has a brilliant mind. I've been waiting to hear his thoughts regarding the oppression and injustices going on right now.

    • @ozstyl
      @ozstyl Před 4 lety +4

      Go and watch his interview on Democracy Now

  • @antmckinzy655
    @antmckinzy655 Před 4 lety +57

    I'm smart but I wish I was "Cornel West Smart!"

    • @FFede-ji9lv
      @FFede-ji9lv Před 4 lety +5

      As Cornell said in one of his lectures, let the phones be smart you aim to wise.

    • @abcdebonyable
      @abcdebonyable Před 4 lety +2

      Let the phones be smart you be WISE !!!

    • @catcampion
      @catcampion Před 4 lety +3

      I wish I *were*

    • @goodee4451
      @goodee4451 Před 3 lety +1

      he is clearly in another league. he breaks down really comples stuff and makes it simple

  • @theviking2877
    @theviking2877 Před 4 lety +50

    Let's play this what if game. If I were the president, I would appoint Cornel West to the Supreme Court.

  • @l2love516
    @l2love516 Před 4 lety +26

    Wow, what an amazing, intelligent and insightful 21st Century Leader. Many blessings to you, Cornell and thank you Brian!

  • @batuloco5082
    @batuloco5082 Před 4 lety +713

    Let us also not forget about brothers and sisters of native Americans.

    • @Jimmymatthewb
      @Jimmymatthewb Před 4 lety +35

      He literally said that.

    • @laurencrayton2501
      @laurencrayton2501 Před 4 lety +4

      Exactly!!!¡

    • @gertrudebuck590
      @gertrudebuck590 Před 4 lety +11

      YES YES YES!! WHERE ARE MY NATIVE AMERICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS!! WHERE ARE THEY AND WHERE ARE THEY SPEAKING OUT??

    • @nilacurry4230
      @nilacurry4230 Před 4 lety +10

      Amen Batu!! The indigenous family should have a primary voice for change in America

    • @Illstatevid
      @Illstatevid Před 4 lety +6

      @Y B If they weren't eating raw meat, and each other huddled in their caves. They most certainly were not of the neanderthal caucasian so called race. Every human on our planet knows that

  • @d.lactea
    @d.lactea Před 4 lety

    I'm In WOW! Professor America needs you!

  • @obailey973
    @obailey973 Před 4 lety +6

    We are L❤VE... Our ppl are L❤VE... We are NOT a threat!!!

  • @PLOttawa
    @PLOttawa Před 4 lety +178

    Keep bringing more Cornell, MSNBC. He's putting everything into perspective in this chaos. Much love to you professor.

    • @LOUDsigh
      @LOUDsigh Před 4 lety +1

      Lol. Msnbc always has em on. Fox only uses sound bites

    • @rondellcephas6451
      @rondellcephas6451 Před 4 lety

      @@LOUDsigh busted

    • @rondellcephas6451
      @rondellcephas6451 Před 4 lety

      I know Janet Jackson

    • @erikjohnson395
      @erikjohnson395 Před 4 lety

      The way 2020 is going im starting to believe in Aliens and I have a feeling they will come down to earth this year

    • @expatsworld1283
      @expatsworld1283 Před 4 lety

      ask how many 100 of millions US system killed in Africa? Libya, Somalia, Panama, Yugoslavia, Syria, Somalia, Vietnam, Iraq, Korea, Philippines, Native Americans??

  • @ewingshannon
    @ewingshannon Před 4 lety +19

    Thank you, prof. West, for pointing out that underprivileged whites are also targeted. We must ALL stand together against injustice.

  • @almazyassin1829
    @almazyassin1829 Před 4 lety +14

    I met years back and took a picture with him .the event was africam American journalist all over America that took place in seattle Washington. He is amazing mind as a man period .we love you brother ❤

    • @mr.optimistic1149
      @mr.optimistic1149 Před 4 lety

      His mind left his body years ago! Just a leftist antiwhite crazy person!

  • @thesmartgene
    @thesmartgene Před 4 lety

    So good to see Cornel West on MSNBC discussing the state of America. I did my senior thesis on Cornel West's critique and vision of American philosophy a while ago. He's amazing.

  • @marcianodemidof7135
    @marcianodemidof7135 Před 4 lety +50

    That one made me choke ones again. Brother Cornel West🙏. Always telling the truth. Only to bring us all together. Just listen closley what he says. No hate here. Only peace.

  • @hansombrother1
    @hansombrother1 Před 4 lety +365

    I like the way he calls everyone “brother”.

    • @9000ck
      @9000ck Před 4 lety +50

      It's deeply humanistic and respectful...

    • @jblank1862
      @jblank1862 Před 4 lety +16

      @@9000ck You get it! Perfect.

    • @queenofmyheart7815
      @queenofmyheart7815 Před 4 lety +22

      @Daniel Malloy - You're really something! It shows your brilliance! Well-done!

    • @deeman4125
      @deeman4125 Před 4 lety

      @Daniel Malloy 🖕🏾🖕🏾 you should know first hand your mom still trying to locate yours

    • @isasooner5
      @isasooner5 Před 4 lety

      @kidd Jones Islam and the holy Quran, is the perfection and correction, and completion of Judaism and christianity, that came before it!

  • @dawidj.vanhuffel3452
    @dawidj.vanhuffel3452 Před 4 lety +13

    Always great listening to this great philosopher.

    • @tulayamalavenapi4028
      @tulayamalavenapi4028 Před 4 lety

      He is great, and follows the greats of even the past philosophers.
      krishna.org/bhagavad-gita-as-it-is-original-1972-edition-free-pdf-download/
      Henry David Thoreau wrote "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."
      Ralph Waldo Emerson said this about the Bhagavad-Gita: "I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent,the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."
      Please read this monumental book. It is actually a conversation that takes place on a battlefield.
      America is not yet a battlefield literally, but before it becomes one, please everyone read how to solve the existential conflicts we all face.
      Dr. West is from my hometown, Sacramento, and I am just getting to know this modern philosopher
      🙏🏻💙🙏🏻💙🙏🏻

  • @psterling4321
    @psterling4321 Před 4 lety +1

    Well said Dr. West!

  • @michaelhamilton7111
    @michaelhamilton7111 Před 4 lety +26

    Very powerful words.

  • @jenm9099
    @jenm9099 Před 4 lety +16

    I pray to gain a fraction of Brother Cornel West's wisdom and grace in my life. He is outstanding.

    • @Tippy2forU
      @Tippy2forU Před 4 lety +4

      With age comes wisdom. Keep learning, keep growing and expand your mind and you will gain the wisdom. You are smart. You can do it.

  • @ConnorMarc
    @ConnorMarc Před 4 lety +1

    POWERFUL!

  • @gyatehghartey3613
    @gyatehghartey3613 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks 🙏🏿 for the Hope 🙏🏿🙏🏿🌍🌍

  • @banksmonday7482
    @banksmonday7482 Před 4 lety +292

    How he puts “brother” as a prefix in people’s name show how he considers people as people.

    • @victoriagarcia5533
      @victoriagarcia5533 Před 4 lety +27

      And it immediately invites people into a conversation.

    • @Tippy2forU
      @Tippy2forU Před 4 lety +19

      We are brothers and sisters in this thing called life. We may be different ethnicities, races and cultures but we are one in species.

    • @parabolicfinancenews9887
      @parabolicfinancenews9887 Před 4 lety +9

      @Big Kunta but he still doesn't talk about the real problem. Are whole government is a sham living high on the hog from the misery. Democracy is wrong. Democracy translates into our group is bigger than yours so we tell you how to live. Democracy is majority rules. America was meant to be a Democratic Republic and we have transgressed into a dictatorship police state. Forget racism, this what's used to conquer and divide and confuse the people while the federal reserve and IMF funnel the wealth to the top. Who's more likely to take the power back their tyrannical government? a nation with all the races working together, or a nation divided? Why is George Floyd's funeral closed casket?

    • @shadow_of_thoth
      @shadow_of_thoth Před 4 lety +5

      @@parabolicfinancenews9887 And radical individualism/egoism translates to "this individual has more wealth/power than these individuals, so he gets to tell them how to live." Egoism is simply might makes right.
      America has not transgressed into a "dictatorship police state" quite yet. But, even if it had, you misunderstand how we got here. It was not at all democracy that led to this outcome. Not even close. No, this is the evolved form of a corporate oligarchy.
      It is not a secret that corporations have an unreasonable amount of influence and control over the government through their corporate lobbying and campaign financing of both major parties, alongside full control of the corporate media's narrative, which amounts to corporate propaganda being dispersed 24/7 out into a public full of individuals who were taught, not how to think critically or interpret information efficiently for themselves, but rather how to obey authority and mindlessly absorb claims being presented to them as "facts." The purpose of the public school system is to prepare students for a future career, NOT to be a competent voter or member of society at large. That is by design, you see. The system, as it currently exists, is not an accident. This is a business strategy. The corporate puppetmasters in control of our politicians don't want critical thinkers undermining their power, because then they wouldn't be able to get away with using OUR tax money for THEIR bailouts every time THEY and their handful of greedy friends make a mistake and ruin the economy for everyone else, just because they want to gamble on high-risk decisions that ultimately endanger the livelihoods of everyone underneath them, potentially rippling out into other areas of the economy!
      Oh, and you brought up division. Very good. Let's talk about how, even despite the indisputable fact that billionaires and corporations have the privilege of choosing which candidates the public is allowed to even pick from (along with the privilege of setting the narrative and manufacturing consent to the establishment), nothing ever seriously gets done about any of the demands made for change. Now, let me ask you, have you seen any major corporations trying to capitalize off of their "support" for Black Lives Matter or Pride Month recently? If so, and if they support equal rights like they claim to, then why don't they just fund the politicians who would do something about the problem? Oh, that's right! They don't care! They pretend to care for a profit, but the reality is that identity groups are just a tool of marketing to them and nothing more. It isn't profitable for them to do anything about it. They LIKE the division! It is very good for business! They have the full power to do something, but they don't. And they never will.
      Wake up and see who the real authoritarians are.

    • @parabolicfinancenews9887
      @parabolicfinancenews9887 Před 4 lety +2

      @@shadow_of_thoth you are right but the biggest part starts with the monetary system. The best slaves are the ones that dont know they are slaves.

  • @AlejandroCastroDelgado
    @AlejandroCastroDelgado Před 4 lety +173

    “Gangsters come in all forms...” And the biggest of all is, of all places, in the White House....

    • @richardstein5702
      @richardstein5702 Před 4 lety +3

      It’s become difficult to see a true end to the corruption at the top without major upheaval in the so-called lawful forms of government. It’s possible the military will need to assert their power to defend the Constitution by ending the Trump gangster government.

    • @weverleywagstaff8319
      @weverleywagstaff8319 Před 4 lety +3

      All current politicians are to blame...not only trump!!!

    • @richardstein5702
      @richardstein5702 Před 4 lety +1

      Weverley Wagstaff - there are levels of responsibility across Congress, but there is the chief disruptor sitting in the Oval Office chair where the incendiary actions start and the buck stops.

    • @nacculatevassell8138
      @nacculatevassell8138 Před 4 lety

      And the Senate

    • @richardstein5702
      @richardstein5702 Před 4 lety

      Nacculate Vassell - hi Nacculate - just fyi: the Congress is made up of two bodies, the House and the Senate

  • @Ignatius98
    @Ignatius98 Před 4 lety

    It is always a blessing to hear what Dr Cornel West has to say about the times we are living in. I have all of his books and my life has been so enriched by his teachings. May God bless this great man that is an icon of the Black community!

  • @anonymoushuman8344
    @anonymoushuman8344 Před 4 lety +10

    Good to know Brother West is back at Harvard.

  • @ethnicmusiclover
    @ethnicmusiclover Před 4 lety +27

    I have heard amazing people during this protest and crisis. This man is incredible. And he has a guitar behind him! God I love music that heals the soul. It has helped me through so much the last 5 years.

  • @Peace4MEarth
    @Peace4MEarth Před 4 lety +468

    "They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin

    • @timshimme5478
      @timshimme5478 Před 4 lety +21

      I just revisited Carlin's 2000 era routines. wish he was around still to call out these jerkoffs in the two party rigged racist system

    • @dsledge2266
      @dsledge2266 Před 4 lety +11

      yeah I miss george carlin too..

    • @ladydignity
      @ladydignity Před 4 lety +1

      Wow...

    • @PissedOffKristov
      @PissedOffKristov Před 4 lety +3

      It's a big club, and YOU AIN'T IN IT!!!

    • @bamanra3858
      @bamanra3858 Před 4 lety +3

      Word.

  • @Life_moreabundantly
    @Life_moreabundantly Před 4 lety +1

    Blessings To You Doc!

  • @vallaeiasprings9870
    @vallaeiasprings9870 Před 4 lety

    so glad to HEAR these WISE and TRUTHFUL words on the governmental media...THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU

  • @Quebecoisegal
    @Quebecoisegal Před 4 lety +220

    "The gangster is at the top" - well aint that the truth.

  • @trevorgillan5756
    @trevorgillan5756 Před 4 lety +84

    Cornell West for President!

    • @ronnieroberts40
      @ronnieroberts40 Před 4 lety +3

      Trevor Gillan He’s got my vote!

    • @chadwhite1198
      @chadwhite1198 Před 4 lety +3

      Amen, brother!

    • @piggy8761
      @piggy8761 Před 4 lety +2

      Not sure if he would want it, but hes got my vote

    • @SenatiaA
      @SenatiaA Před 4 lety +1

      Socrates was a brilliant thinker but a terrible politician. His student, however, described the idea politician and society. But we live in Bentham’s society.

    • @tacat9820
      @tacat9820 Před 4 lety

      I’d vote for Dr. west in a heartbeat

  • @iam1blackpowercoachkc51

    I watch THE HONORABLE Dr. Cornel West for hours. If we could convince all of humanity to listen to him even once a week, the world would be a better place.

  • @dottiebaker6623
    @dottiebaker6623 Před 4 lety

    Cornell for President! What a clear vision of our country. We need everything you've talked about, but mostly we need your passion.

  • @KrazeeClark
    @KrazeeClark Před 4 lety +334

    "Neofascist Gangster?" Man, that is so true. We have to get out the vote in November!!!

    • @bobbyharper8710
      @bobbyharper8710 Před 4 lety +4

      Murdering hard working business owners in a looting arson spree makes you what?

    • @Dignity100
      @Dignity100 Před 4 lety

      indeed we do

    • @billsmock5410
      @billsmock5410 Před 4 lety +2

      @@bobbyharper8710 you find that to be representative of every protester out there?

    • @OakleyMoodie
      @OakleyMoodie Před 4 lety +12

      @@bobbyharper8710 "Murdering hard working business owners in a looting arson spree makes you what?"
      A government corporate bailout that strengthens Amazon, Walmart and Citicorp but snuffs out Mom n' Pop shops like a used cigarette butt?
      Did I get that one right professor?

    • @bobbyharper8710
      @bobbyharper8710 Před 4 lety +1

      @@OakleyMoodie looting arson spree. That's a crime. Bailing out the companies that employ Americans is smart and that's why you don't understand anything.

  • @dremoore81
    @dremoore81 Před 4 lety +162

    This man needs to be put in front of a lot of us. We need this directions to be publicly promoted.

    • @frankgavidia
      @frankgavidia Před 4 lety +2

      But you all elected a criminal as president of the United States, there's no future for a country that makes war against peaceful countries like Venezuela, now they´re using that force against their own people, tell me how does it feel?

    • @edwardgaines6561
      @edwardgaines6561 Před 4 lety

      Most Black people don't even know who Cornel West is.

    • @karmicsheila63
      @karmicsheila63 Před 4 lety +1

      @@edwardgaines6561 That is an ignorant statement white man.

    • @edwardgaines6561
      @edwardgaines6561 Před 4 lety +1

      @@karmicsheila63 But they know who Nipsey Hustle was. Incidentally killed by a Black man.

    • @vitalean
      @vitalean Před 4 lety

      Franklin Gavidia wow

  • @lilybaytoday
    @lilybaytoday Před 4 lety

    Any time I see Dr. West, I have to stop and listen. To ponder, to take in the knowledge, the wisdom, the truth. He holds up a mirror showing us our limited understanding of love.

  • @laineyg6
    @laineyg6 Před 4 lety

    I could listen to Cornell West for days!

  • @carmenlee2244
    @carmenlee2244 Před 4 lety +101

    Really appreciate Dr. West’s words. More than that, appreciate the space and respect Brian Williams gives to him without interruption.

    • @xyzsame4081
      @xyzsame4081 Před 4 lety +2

      The powers that be and the donor class have written off Trump and so the protests are covered, and not too much villifying of protesters and even sympathetic coverage (they expect the protests to harm the election of Trump and they are quite certain that Biden WILL be the nominee. And if not him, than another neoliberal shill, certainly not Sanders).
      I never thought I would see Dr. West on such a show and given so much room. It is a small window and it will soon close. But what a preacher, he for sure seizes the chance.

    • @chrisguevara
      @chrisguevara Před 4 lety +1

      @@xyzsame4081Agreed. They got their tax cut and can't get anything else out of him now. I knew he was neutered when a Republican Congress passed the tax bill before building the wall. They didn't even mention it. They dupped Trump hard.

  • @leya1542
    @leya1542 Před 4 lety +65

    If the thousands of protesters start chanting OBAMA we miss you over and over they would set Trump into Narcissistic Rage! Thats the way the American ppl can dominate his azzz! Eye for and eye!

    • @kyraneto8533
      @kyraneto8533 Před 4 lety +12

      Oh I would love to hear and see that.

    • @jimm5304
      @jimm5304 Před 4 lety +13

      Now that's a narcissistic melt-down I'd pay money to watch unfold...

    • @michaelberry6443
      @michaelberry6443 Před 4 lety +5

      With respect, if all you see right now is Red vs Blue and if only our team was in place things would be fine, then you aren't recognizing the moment AT ALL. Less still would you be understanding even the first word of what Dr. West says. Look up 'cornel west obama'. Obama, according to West, and he's not wrong, contributed to this. It was under him, Eric holder, and Jeh that black lives matter formed and under which the poverty increased so dramatically and the inequality really spiraled out of control.

    • @biankacable2020
      @biankacable2020 Před 4 lety +2

      His entire head would explode then we'd have Pence as president until November.

    • @kamaramikel7291
      @kamaramikel7291 Před 4 lety

      I don’t think he would care at all.

  • @alau2058
    @alau2058 Před 3 lety +1

    Powerful speech!! Right on point, sadly. I wish I had his faith.

  • @carlkuss
    @carlkuss Před 4 lety +13

    The more I hear this man the more I love him and his message.

  • @samthousand
    @samthousand Před 4 lety +31

    Blessings to King West, looking healthy and still razor sharp in the mind!

  • @barriewright2857
    @barriewright2857 Před 4 lety +66

    I LOVE CORNEL WEST, he's a real human being, with dignity, pois and he talks the kind of language that I understand. 👏👏👏👏

  • @andrewhornsby470
    @andrewhornsby470 Před 4 lety +3

    This man knows my heart and where it belongs. Justice ❤

  • @Humanprx
    @Humanprx Před 4 lety

    Thank you for letting Mr. West talk uninterrupted 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽