Posted on July 22, 2013

Cornel West: Al Sharpton Is "Still On The Obama Plantation"

TAVIS SMILEY: Black people now find themselves at the mercy of an African-American Attorney General to do something else. He came out this week at the NAACP this week and talked about the Stand Your Ground Law What do you make of the irony of who we have to depend on now to make a decision that I for one don't believe is forthcoming.



CORNEL WEST: Yeah I wish and pray that it were forthcoming, but I don't think it's forthcoming either though brother. I think they just its just smoke and mirrors at this point and it's going to be on to the next issue as soon as they think this thing settles down. Now the good thing is it won't settle down and I think it's going to create some kind of division within our black political class because it's just too humiliating it's too embarrassing, you see it with Brother Sharpton; Sharpton probably deep down wants to be critical of the President, but he can't because he's still on the Obama plantation. Ah so he can't say a mumbling word no matter how radical he wants to act and act as it were and deep down in his soul I think he really does feel a fire, but he cannot allow that fire in any way to spill over toward the White House. Why? Because he's still too tied he's too uncritical he's too deferential he's too subservient as it were and as long as that's in place we're going to find ourselves unable to tell the fundamental truth. (July 21, 2013)