Cornel West — "The blues is a mode of being in the world, an existential stance, a way of grapp…"
The blues is a mode of being in the world, an existential stance, a way of grappling with the catastrophes of life.
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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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About Cornel West (born 1953)
American philosopher, public intellectual, and theologian (Race Matters, 1993; Democracy Matters, 2004), now teaching at Union Theological Seminary. Closely associated with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Harvard Black-studies collaborator) and Toni Morrison (literary peer and friend). For an intellectual contrast, see Larry Summers, economist and former Harvard President — Summers's 2002 confrontation with West over rap-album recordings, summer-school grading, and political activism led to West's high-profile departure from Harvard for Princeton. The clash became the public face of competing visions of Black scholarship — celebrity public intellectual vs traditional academic gatekeeping.