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Shame on Cornel West, his Refuse Fascism fascists, and the academic and liberal elites for failing to preserve and protect freedom of speech on this campus and on most American campuses

Harvard Prof Cornel West- Behind Violent Berkeley Protests



At Harvard, I had a diverse group of friends and acquaintances. From Ayn Randists, Young Republicans, bleeding heart liberals to radical militant feminists, socialists and further to the left- militant Black Panther- loving Marxists. Cornel was a member of the latter group. After Harvard, Cornel secured a Ph.D from Princeton in Philosophy. He then successfully scored professorships at Harvard, Princeton, Union Theological Seminary and now is returning to be a Harvard prof once again.
I always admired Cornel for his cojones. For going against the grain. Not necessarily for his politics or anti-Israel/pro-Palestinian diatribes. But he always marched to his own hip hop drummer. Cornel became famous or infamous ( depending on your perspective) for being one of the few liberal leaders (black, white or other) to regularly publicly criticize former President Obama during his presidency for his numerous failures and failings. In a controversial 2011 public exchange with Al Sharpton, West accused Obama of being a” black mascot for the wealthy” who was more interested in serving the interests of oligarchs than the black community. West observed that 72% of black men were stopped by police in New York, but Obama never said a word. On another occasion, West told liberal activist, Amy Goodman, that Obama was merely a Rockefeller Republican in blackface. Oh that hurt! In a hard-hitting 2014 interview with liberal online Salon, West outed Obama as a fake progressive, a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, and much worse.

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West observed of Obama:
“No, the thing is he posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency. The torturers go free. The Wall Street executives go free. The war crimes in the Middle East, especially now in Gaza, the war criminals go free. And yet, you know, he acted as if he was both a progressive and as if he was concerned about the issues of serious injustice and inequality and it turned out that he’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair. And that’s a very sad moment in the history of the nation because we are—we’re an empire in decline. Our culture is in increasing decay. Our school systems are in deep trouble. Our political system is dysfunctional. Our leaders are more and more bought off with legalized bribery and normalized corruption in Congress and too much of our civil life. You would think that we needed somebody—a Lincoln-like figure who could revive some democratic spirit and democratic possibility.”
But unlike ex president Obama who has retired to the golf links, Comrade West is still raging. Cornel West has been tied to the violent Berkeley rioters as one of the organizers or initiators of the far left activist group “Refuse Fascism”, which have been accused of setting fires and attacking peaceful Trump supporters who had come to hear gay conservative activist and speaker Milo Yiannapoulos speak on the Berkeley University campus at the invitation of the campus Republicans.

I have heard and seen Milo Y speak on various videos. He speaks inconvenient truths that deserve to be heard. Mainly, that as a gay person, he would be mistreated, discriminated against, punished, tortured, abused and potentially thrown off a building in many Muslim countries. Milo talks at length about 1400 young girls in the English town of Rotherham, being sexually abused, exploited, abducted, raped and sold as sex slaves by hundreds of Muslim Pakistani men for several years. These men succeeded because the English authorities, ie social workers, police and local politicians were afraid of being called racist for investigating and stopping the abuse of these poor girls. The then Home Secretary, Theresa May, now British Prime Minister referred to this conduct as “institutionalized political correctness”. Sound familiar. This is not hate speech or racism. These are harsh truths and facts about a foreign culture whose values and actions are anathema to American values of gender equality and sexual equality. And they have no place in American society. As a result of the violence, Milo’s speech was cancelled. Shame on Cornel West, his Refuse Fascism fascists, and the academic and liberal elites for failing to preserve and protect freedom of speech on this campus and on most American campuses.


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Mitch Wolfe, a graduate of Harvard University, is the author of “Trump: How He Captured The Trump White House”, which he wrote and had published prior to the election. (available on Amazon.com)


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