He is 100 percent RIGHT!

CORNEL WEST ALWAYS SPEAKS THE TRUTH. A PROVEN ADVOCATE FOR THE OPPRESSED

Love to hear this guy take, poet and physiological at the same time. Nice to hear a guy speak about reality and the truth too.

This man called it .

I totally agree with Mr. West. Because if it had happened to one of his daughters, then it definitely would have been a different outcome!

I notice that, in this interview, Cornel refers to some white people as "brother". He really comes off as someone who believes that we're all in this together.

Now, if Trayvon had gotten up after the beating and began to walk away, and Zimmerman then got up and shot Trayvon, you could make a case that Zimmerman murdered him because he got "his ass whooped." But the fact is that Zimmerman fired his gun while Trayvon was still on top of him, giving him repeated blows to the head, and that is self defense. It wouldn't have mattered what color he was. The jury did their job.

Preach, brother West!

Love him

My biggest inspiration

Drop it like it's hot, Dr. West!

I gotta read some of brother Cornell's writing

Dr. Cornel West speaks the truth!

Very smart man

"as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation."

Yep.

Exactly!!!

The end of this one was like poetry. Wow.

This evil world we live in.

You said it ALL, sister and I'm pleased as a Black American Muslim who's ancestors are African and Cuban descent they built this so called country (which as emulated Rome) to become an EMPIRE!!! AND I RATHER YOU HATE ME FOR WHO I AM THEN TO LOVE ME FOR WHO I'M NOT!!!

Wonderful. Thanks for the help.

Dr. West is one of the most honest civil rights leaders. He has absolutely no problem calling people out, even if they are black, brown, blue, green or fucking purple. He kicks ALOT of ass, we need MORE people like him.

Good point .

Wow....

My son who was out picking up pizzas for dinner on two separate occasions was pulled over by Massachusetts State Police. He was not speeding. He was asking where he was going and what he was doing in the area. He was then asked if he had a weapon or drugs in the car. He told them no and was still asked to step out of his car, handcuffed, put in the back of the policeman's cruiser and then waited while the statie went through his whole car. This happened in Brockton, Mass.Twenty minutes later He was given back his license and told to have a good evening. My son is white. This The police abuse their power and they get away with it because their word is always taken over the word of the person stopped.

Preach preach preach!

yep

Real talk

I agree totally.

Dr West makes clear and valid points based on factual evidence. Having the ability to see through the distractions , articulate and express intelligently towards the issues of today. It's sad when others belittle any man of his caliber. Well said Dr West.

Dr. West speaking the truth yet again!

Sad, but true!

Speaking the truth!

I have to agree about Obama administration.... five years Damn! Drones killing innocent people!

Right you are!

Preach, Brother West!

He makes a good point. It aint just about colour or culture. It's about totalitarian injustice.

Thanks for this comment!

Cornell West is on another level.Hes a brilliant man who not afraid to speak the truth.

Agreed!

"when you strive for equality before freedom you get neither, when you strive for freedom before equality, you get a high degree of both" -Milton Friedman there's a problem with this ideology, which implies that socioeconomic inequality is inevitable, in that its a disproportionate inequality amongst disenfranchised MINORITIES!!

Agreed.

Dr West is a giant of truth. We have so few who will speak like him in this NSA stasi state.

Your point is well made and well taken.

'' A cat can have kittens in the oven... that don't make 'em biscuits ... '' - Malcolm X.

When I was 18, a police officer followed me and a friend in a separate vehicle (we were driving a Buick and an Olds), pulled us over in my neighborhood, and called for backup. A total of 3-4 cars arrived. My friend's vehicle was searched, and I was told that I'd only flip burgers if I got a drag racing ticket (we had been going up to 45 mph in a 35 mph zone). We were both intimidated, and written tickets for reckless driving. I still think this was B.S. BTW, I'm white. (response to Mr. Holder)

A friend of mine were once walking home from a liquor store; we went around the back of the building to enter an alley that led back but were stopped by a friendly homeless guy who regaled us with stories about how he used to "own this city" and other drunken self aggrandizing. Cornell reminds me of that guy. Kinda looks like him and talks just like him.

Very good video.Truth hurts. Cornel West speaks the truth.

Just because they're not problems for you doesn't make them any less of a problem.

Hotep brotha West keep speaking truth to power !! You and Tavis are really the only African Americans that are willing to hold Obama accountable for his actions while in office.

That sums up the critical situation about our country as a whole. We are all on "strings" or circumstances that we cannot resist. We can't speak out on our jobs because of fear of a "worsen" poverty than we already have. We as AMERICAN, NOT just a single race, but a WHOLE, we outweigh these puppeteers.... so why don't we ACT against them? It is time for reform!!!!!! We need to stop acting like grown HELPLESS children!!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!!

That shifting of the burden of proof is precisely why I don't like "Stand your ground" laws. In a fistfight, self-defense is difficult to establish, and that fact tends to encourage people to walk away from an unnecessary confrontation. It defies all reason to make a deadlier form of confrontation fall under less scrutiny. At the end of the day, we should be spending less time looking back, and focusing on high-profile cases where people are already dead, and spend more time looking forward.

Good segment.

I didn't know we couldn't post links here?

The reason why the defense didn't use the "Stand your ground" law is that the last thing they (or the state) wanted to risk, was jury nullification of the law itself.

He makes excellent points.

OMMMMMMGGG IVE BEEN SCREAMING SOME OF THE SAME THINGS HE'S TALKING ABOUT TO EVERY BLACK PERSON I KNOW GET OFF THE OBAMA PLANTATION

I agree. There isn't a "new" jim crow, because the old jim never left.

Wow! amazing... Mr. Cornel West speaking the truth... much respect.

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Dr., he earned his title

brother Cornell is a real role model, a real intellect, and a real man.

Sad

Agreed, 100%.

I believe, in the case of Trayvon., and Zimmerman, that that whole event was an event between those two,(the shooting) each a little unstable and unpredictable,and ,we,the variety of media controlled,people, see what we want in the case;A wannabe policeman, and a wannabe thug, but neither are what they want to be??we see a Jew, killing a black. a young poor kid, being killed by a middle class white, a gun user protecting himself from an authority hating black.But ,the event is not as simple as most of us see it.

This is one of the few people in this country that dares to speak the truth!

This is absolutely true. so what has happened to change your mind, Cornell in 2016 election now that Bernie is gone? this is really disgusting distinction between this conversation and now. wow. people change.

He is right! So much for having a "Black" President.

I agree."It was a clear case of self defense."

He's not being racist nor saying whites only far as non political officials but the officials who write and police the laws

Why is it our problem if poor people are uneducated? We all have a public school system available to our families.

Cornel West speaks the truth. Something that bothers those who don't have the mental capacity to reason an issue and come to a logical conclusion.He upsets the masses who pick a side and cheer their team on no matter what goes on behind the scenes.

maybe the only person speaking the uncut truth and standing up for freedom and justice for all people. Dr. West for president!

You go out driving with a gun. You see somebody you don't like, although they're not making any trouble. The cops tell you to leave him alone. Instead, you follow, get out of your car. Trouble starts. Before you know it, you're on your back getting beaten up (for some reason). So you shoot and kill the person. Who's most responsible for this tragedy? It ain't the kid walking with a bag of candy. Fucking sickening.

!00% truth as usual from the excellent Dr Cornel West.

Defend Zimmerman is the same thing as defending Jim Crow laws

Unbelievably moving! Thank you Dr. West

"On these decrepit shores............." That should tell you in a nut shell what someone feels about this country.

a country of laws, but lacking in justice

Speaking truth to power, that's what Cornel West does!!!

Damn, Cornel West, thank you sir.

Now what are we to do Dr West?

I love and respect brother Cornel West. He speaks about the issues that most Black people in his position won't go anywhere near because of fear of their white counterparts.

I agree with what C. West is saying 100% and I'm white and part Aboriginal. N I know how racism exists in Australia and racist policies and criminalizing of minorities. So JaVern. Don't say all whites aren't aware of the injustice going on against black and brown Americans. Not so. Some are. "Those who are for you are not against you".

I applaud Cornel West for his insight and realism.

Being followed doesn't give you the right to shoot someone. Only when attacked or some sort of altercation happens that you are allowed to shoot.

i can't think of many people that would take that kind of disrespect and not at least get into an argument possibly get into a fight for something like that, trayvon acted like a good amount of us would.

Cornel is always spot on when it comes to the morality of this administration.

I am human.

The idea that there is a man, or group, that holds the strings, is always a depressing thing to hear. There is no such thing, history and the present move on, from one power structure to another and one thing is certain, power is not top down, but lateral, diagonal and chaotic.

The guy speaks the truth, its sad how someone would try to test his character. Oh yeah, they have none!

Oh by the way....When slaves were freed they were offered free passage to Africa...Why didn't they take it...That was message to those people that we weren't interested.

A moot point at best. Trayvon would never have been in the position to attack Zimmerman had he done what he was told to do by dispatch and stayed in his car. The situation starts and ends with that mere fact alone.......which further solidifies the idea that this trial should have been about Zimmerman's decision to pursue Trayvon, not Trayvon's decision to attack Zimmerman in self-defense.

What you don't understand is that it starts with recognizing the problem. The hardest part is which avenue one has to walk through in order to execute them and there are many avenues to go by as an educator, it beneficial to allow the student to reach that conclusion for themselves instead of the teacher ramming their own conclusions down your throat!!! Cornell is brilliant and only speaking of the contradictions which occurs and informing the viewers of it.

No problem with the truth, just a problem on how to handle it.

WOW...I love and respect Dr.West, he more often than not speaks with great compassion and sincere love of and for whomever he's defending. Yet whenever he discuss President Obama there seems to be a tone present that reveals an alternate agenda of which I know not of...now that's not to say he doesn't make some very good points and shed light on some often overlooked happenings but he tends to discount or flat out ignore nuance and complexity of the issues when President Obama is concerned. 2bad

explain!!!.

I agree with Cornell, but he has to recognize the reform isn't working. We need a revolution...plain and simple. We been trying to "reform" too long.

1) I know what was determined by a jury to have occurred based on months of accumulated evidence and testimony, and because I respect the strength of the American judicial system I CAN in FACT make that statement. 2) Treyvon wasn't a child, and standing his ground didn't require violence. If you make the first violent move, you become the aggressor and the law can no longer protect you. Your ignorance may one day get you in legal trouble, assuming it hasn't already.

It's sort of hard to prove that when you can hold people without charging them with anything now, isn't it?

Actually gang bangers and drug dealers use stand your ground quite often. There's also the case of a black man who killed a white teen who was breaking into a car he was also acquitted...

This dude is awsome. He knows his hip hop too. Jay Z is a puppet for the bigger puppets of the few that run the whole show