Did you miss it? Cornel West says we are still racist

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Mary Grabar

 Dog bites man.  

Cornel West speaks on race at Emory.  Ho hum.  “George W. Bush is a racist.”  Yawn.  “We’ve come a long ways (witness my speaking fees), but we’ve got a long ways to go (otherwise no one would have reason to book me as a speaker).”  (Just doing a little deconstruction for the folks out there.)

 No wonder the kids find school boring—and why I find most of my tenured colleagues to be so tedious.  I wonder when Cornel West last went to a local Republican meeting, Baptist church service, or a  Cajun Dance—or patrolled with police officers.  Maybe if he left his ivory tower he’d see that the real world does not live up to his theories of racism and oppression.

Tags: Academia, Cornel West, Emory, race