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Cornel West Sparks Controversy After Saying President Obama Doesn’t Deserve To Be Sworn In On MLK’s Bible

Cornel West’s commentary has sparked controversy yet again as the scholar and professor said President Obama doesn’t deserve to be sworn in on Dr. King’s bible.

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Cornel West’s commentary has sparked controversy yet again as the scholar and professor said President Obama doesn’t deserve to be sworn in on Dr. King’s bible.

West states:

“You don’t play with Martin Luther King, Jr. and you don’t play with his people, said West. “By his people, I mean people of good conscience, fundamentally good people committed to peace and truth and justice, especially the Black tradition that produced it.

“All of the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing a Martin Luther King, Jr. generated a brother of such high decency and dignity that you don’t use his prophetic fire for a moment of presidential pageantry without understanding the challenge he represents to all of those in power regardless of what color they are.

 

“The righteous indignation of a Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a moment of political calculation. And that makes my blood boil. Why? Because Martin Luther King, Jr died…he died…for the three crimes against humanity that he was wrestling with. Jim Crow, traumatizing, terrorizing, stigmatizing Black people. Lynching, not just ‘segregation’ as the press likes to talk about.

 

“Second: Carpet bombing in Vietnam killing innocent people, especially innocent children, those are war crimes that Martin Luther King , Jr. was willing to die for. And thirdly, was poverty of all colors, he said it is a crime against humanity for the richest nation in the world to have so many of it’s precious children of all colors living in poverty and especially on the chocolate side of the nation, and on Indian reservations and Brown barrios and yellow slices and Black ghettos — we call them hoods now, but ghettos then.

 

“So I said to myself ain’t nothing wrong with putting your hand on the bible, even though the bible’s talking about justice, Jesus is talking about the least of these, but when you put it on Martin’s bible, I said ‘this is personal for me,’ because this is the tradition that I come out of.”

Cornel West went further to say President Obama’s actions as president is a contradiction to what Dr. King stood for.

“Brother Martin Luther King, Jr., what you say about the New Jim Crow? What would say about the Prison Industrial Complex? What would you say about the invisibility of so many of our prisoners, so many of our incarcerated, especially when 62 percent of them are there for soft drugs and not one executive of a Wall Street bank gone to jail. Not one. Martin doesn’t like that. Not one wire-tapper, not one torturer under the Bush Administration — all,” said West.

 

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What do you think about his thoughts? Does Cornel West made a valid point?


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  1. Crystal Glacier

    January 25, 2013 at 9:05 am

    I can’t find one untrue statement in Dr. West’s diatribe. I can only hope that Obama stands up for what Dr. King believed in moving forward.

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Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress

Shirley is will be released on Netflix March 22.

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Regina King as Shirley Chisholm (Netflix)

In the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix movie Shirley, Regina King stars as the first Black woman to be elected to Congress.

Regina King as Shirley Chisholm

Chisholm’s story will be chronicled, showing her uphill battle and obstacles to win a seat in Congress as the daughter of a Barbados-born maid and a Guyanese laborer, her struggles to navigate Congress alongside her White male colleagues, and her groundbreaking 1972 presidential campaign.

Movie production

Produced by Regina King and her sister Reina King, Shirley also stars the late Lance Reddick, Lucas Hedges, Terrence Howard, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Christina Jackson and more.

King, who spent 15 years producing the film, said the project was an incredible feat.

“It was always a little disheartening for Reina and I to have so many people over the years of our lives not know who Shirley Chisholm was,” King told Harper’s Bazaar.

“What she did was so pioneering. She was a true maverick and, you know, we use this term all the time, but she was a true first.”

King said they decided to release the film during an election year as they thought it would make for a more “impactful” release.

“As a team, we felt that is probably the best way we could possibly honor Shirley: to release her in a space that she created for herself.”

Regina King as Shirley Chisholm trailer

Shirley is will be released on Netflix March 22.


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Don Scott becomes first Black speaker in Virginia Legislature’s 400-year history

Don Scott becomes the first Black speaker in Virginia Legislature’s 400-year history.

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Democrat Don Scott made history Wednesday (Jan. 10th), after the Virginia General Assembly unanimously elected him as house speaker.

The vote makes him the first Black speaker in the Virginia House of Delegates’ 400-year history.

Del. Don Scott speaks on making history

“My first immediate emotion is just gratitude. I’m very grateful,” said Scott, overcome with emotion.

“The historic nature of this moment is not lost on me,” he told the House.

His political path

Scott’s path in politics is inspiring.

After serving as an officer in the Navy and while in his third year of law school, Scott spent nearly eight years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a drug conspiracy case.

“I made the dreadful mistake of going to pick up some money, some drug money,” said Scott, who noted that he had never been in any trouble before.

After being released from prison, Scott went on to finish his law degree and opened a law practice.

He was then elected to the Virginia legislature, serving as minority leader since 2022, before gaining his party’s backing for the chamber’s top post.

The historic swearing in took place in Richmond, once the capital of the confederacy and the city that just two years ago removed its last city-owned confederate statue.

What a full circle moment.

“We’re only a few miles from where the first slaves came into this country in 1619,” Scott said in an interview with CBS.

“Now 405 years later, you have your first Black speaker. So I’m very cognizant of the shoulders that I stand on.”

“I take it very seriously. And I’m humbled and I’m, I’m grateful for the opportunity.”


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Don Lemon announces new show on X

The former CNN anchor said in a post on Tuesday that he heard his fans and will be launching “The Don Lemon Show”.

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Don Lemon at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes(Photo Credit: Fuzheado/Wikimedia)

Don Lemon is coming back with a new show on his terms.

It’s called The Don Lemon Show

The former CNN anchor said in a post on Tuesday that he heard his fans and will be launching “The Don Lemon Show”.

“I’ve heard you … and today I am back bigger, bolder, freer!” Lemon said in a post on X.

“My new media company’s first project is The Don Lemon Show. It will be available to everyone, easily, whenever you want it, streaming on the platforms where the conversations are happening.”

The Don Lemon show will broadcast on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Lemon said he wanted to create a space for honest debate and discussion without the “hall monitors” and encouraged viewers to stay tuned.

Let go from CNN

Lemon was a staple at CNN.

He was let go from the news network in April 2023 after a series of on-air remarks and a scathing report from Variety that recounted an alleged pattern of misogynistic behavior toward colleagues at the network dating back at least 15 years. A spokesperson for Lemon at the time shot down the report in a statement to Yahoo News as “patently false” and “based on unsourced, unsubstantiated, 15-year-old anonymous gossip.”

In a post-CNN exit exclusive interview ABC24, Lemon addressed his departure.

“I don’t believe in platforming liars and bigots and insurrectionists and election deniers and putting them on the same footing as people who are telling the truth, people who are fighting for what’s right, people who are abiding by the constitution,” he said in the interview. “That would be a dereliction of journalistic duty.”


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