Cornel west on Barack

You'd be surprised.

Brothas who get the MOST heat in college from BW for dating WW happen to attend 'lilly white', elite universities like Princeton, Duke, Yale, etc.

BW have been known to have mini-marches in front of the dorms where these alleged sellouts live, basically calling them race traitors.:smt012

Where you go to college doesn't define your 'Blackness'.

For most of us it's hardwired before we ever graduate from HS.

 

A Black man in a relationship with a White woman is seen as a political act.
Off topic, but Gates has gotten flack for having a White wife, Cornel for his non African-American women, even Randall Kennedy for his book interracial intimacies....

 

Are you serious. I have never heard of black women having mini marches in front of dorms to protest BM who go interracial. I think that thats completely ludicrous. I mean, who the heck are they to try to tell a grown man who to date. Im shocked there are people who even participate in such marches with no shame. To me it just seems they are making themselves look desperate and lonely in this kind of act. But anyways Im glad you brought this up man. Thanks for keeping us aware. I learned something today.

 

dont ferget the books called sell out and nigger

 

"In a 2004 interview Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, stated his belief that 75 percent of the black students at Harvard were of African or Caribbean descent or of mixed race. According to Professor Gates, more than two thirds of all Harvard’s black students were either the children or grandchildren of West Indians or Africans. Very few, he said, of Harvard’s black students were the descendants of American slaves."

I am NOT surprised by the above statement. Harvard is no different than a Princeton, Yale or any other Ivy League school. Like I stated earlier, being an African American studies professor at Princeton is like being a gay male stripper at a titty bar.

 

Huh??

You're not making sense.

The percentage of 'traditional' AA students at Ivy League schools isn't relevant in a discussion about how many Blacks at said schools take African American Studies courses.

The majority of the students in these classes are still predominantly Black, whether or not they are the offspring of Black immigrants.

It's as if you're suggesting being an African American Studies professor isn't integral or a significant part of the cultural studies division of most colleges' Liberal Arts departments.

African American Studies really is a subdivision of American history, if you wanna get specific about it.

Nothing irrelevant about it at all.

Unless you think being Black in America isn't important.:smt048

 

John Hope Franklin thought the subdivision was unnecessary.

I'm sure he foresaw attitudes like Armyrangers, that would dismiss such departments as "less important" in the aggregate.

 

Meaning???

AA Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field of inquiry that charts how economic/political/legal(civil law)/social developments intersect within the prism of race in America.

To assume AA Studies is 'irrelevant' academic discipline would also disqualify most European Studies majors/courses also, and implies that race/identity are no longer significant in America.

If one ever hopes to thrive and survive in American culture, it benefits that individual to learn how and why America is what it is.

The centuries' struggles of Black folk have been the living/breathing litmus test of the U.S. Constitution.

That alone defines AA Studies as a vital course study at any university.

 

There was no meaning beyond referencing the John Hope Franklin belief and tying that in with Army rangers statements.

 

I agree with the substance of the remarks regarding the president's policies. They ARE far too corporate-driven, and do not substantially deviate from the DLC agenda so successfully championed by the Clintons. However, I don't feel that has anything to do with his 'blackness' or an identity crisis. He is simply a center-right Democrat that people mistakenly thought to be far more left than he actually is, largely on account of stereotypes about the politics of (in Tavis' voice) "black folk".