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>>16849908
#2

>99% of progressive left politicians believe in some form of god
>99% of progressive left philosophers and political commentators are atheists who think religion is pure evil and you're unironically a bad person for believing in any kind of god
Has anyone written about this disconnect?

Where does one start with Dr. Cornel West?

>Have you read Race Matters, brother anon?

>>15533236
>We tried black faces in high places
>too often our black politicians, professional class, middle class, become too accommodated to the capitalist economy, too accommodated to the militarized nation state, too accommodated to the market driven culture tied with celebrity status, power, fame, all of that superficial stuff that means so much to so many fellow citizens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46lYUNfhXE

>>14864325
>In December 2017, the philosopher and activist Cornel West published an editorial in The Guardian with the title: "Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle"
> The premise of the article was that Coates "fetishizes white supremacy" and represents a "narrow racial tribalism and myopic political neo-liberalism" by wrongly casting former President Barack Obama as a successor to figures as Malcolm X as an African-American hero
>West believes that Obama should never be compared to civil rights activists, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.,[31] who in their fight against white supremacy spoke out against systemic biases in predatory capitalism and war; according to West, this is because Obama, while he is of the same racial class, is part of the system that the activists should fight against

*blocks your path*