The marginalization of Cornel West

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If you’ve been watching the recent controversy over Cornel West’s statements that Obama is “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats,” among other things, you have been witnessing an interesting phenomenon.  What you are seeing – perhaps most prominently from West’s Princeton colleague Melissa Harris-Perry, [...]

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