THE BEATZ & LYRICS SHOW
Beatz & Lyrics Show
RADIO SHOW MOBILE APPS
ARCHIVES

Posts Tagged ‘Dr. Cornel West’

Dr. Cornel West: “Hillary Clinton is the Milli Vanilli of American Politics” (Video)

 

PREVIOUS: DR. CORNEL WEST SPEAKS ON THE FAILURES OF OBAMA & THE APATHY WITHIN THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS (VIDEO)

Read the rest of this entry »

Cornel West: President Obama Doesn’t Belong On Any Shirt With Martin Luther King And Malcolm X (Video)

Well damn. No let up from the man Dr. Cornel West. Outspoken plainly spoken critiques of the current U.S. President from him can be found all over the Internet (like here); so this slant is not new. But go ahead and dash any hope of a for-the-Black overture coming from the people’s PhD for President Barack Obama. Whew. Once again, Democracy Now gives the pundit a platform to speak it how he sees it.

Barack Obama commits war crimes — Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan,” West said. “Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep a spotlight on war crimes, to keep track of the innocents killed … There is a major clash. That is why I tell my young brothers and sisters when they walk around with their little sweater Martin, Malcolm and Barack Obama, I say, ‘Please. That’s like Coltrane and Sarah Vaughan and Pat Boone. They are a very different tradition.’ We love brother Pat, but he doesn’t belong on that shirt and Barack Obama doesn’t belong on that shirt. Let’s be clear.”

READ: PRESIDENT OBAMA (DEMOCRACY NOW)

Read the rest of this entry »

New Video: Raheem DeVaughn – ‘Hopeless Romantic’ (Video)


Arguably the greatest soul singer of this generation according to Dr. Cornel West, Raheem DeVaughn, drops some new visuals to ‘Hopeless Romantic’ which appears on the D.C. soul singer’s ‘The Love & War MasterPeace’ project

AFFILIATED SPONSORS