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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and obtained his MA and PhD in philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary (where he has recently returned to teach), Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Paris. He has written nineteen books and edited thirteen books.
He is best known for his classic Race Matters, published by Beacon Press in 1993. His latest books are Black Prophetic Fire, which offers a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders (Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells) and The Radical King, a collection of MLK’s writings curated and introduced by Prof. West to reclaim Dr. King’s prophetic and radical vision as both a civil rights leader and-more broadly-as a human right activist. Both books were published by Beacon Press.
Cornel West appears frequently on Real Time with Bill Maher, The Colbert Report, CNN and C-SPAN, and he makes numerous appearances speaking to audiences large and small on subjects ranging from racial justice and queer rights to climate justice. Prof. West has appeared in over twenty- five documentaries and films, including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk, and Stand. He has also made three spoken-word albums, including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One, and the late Gerald Levert. His recent spoken-word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices (which won the Grand Prix in France for the best jazz album of the year for 2009).
He has recently been deeply involved in the Black Lives Matter protests and was among those arrested in Ferguson in 2015. Cornel West has a passion to communicate in writings and orations, through music and film, and in solidarity with groups and faith communities committed to justice in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.-a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
I have listened to this lecture so many times. Every time i listen, i hear new layers. Cornell West is unequivocally an American Treasure and i am so grateful to whoever made this available ❤️
Indeed a brilliant, truthful and fearless speaker. Listen and learn from this beloved brother..Truly a Gift to the American nation whether they realize it or not. May he be blest with good health and long life to continue to encourage the young people to emulate his example of speaking the Truth.
I am so happy I found this. I have been waiting for the moment to study Cornel west; and this just started it.
My hero for so many years. How grateful I am to hear your beautiful voice.
this man right here is purified tried and true truth... I only hope to be a 3rd of what this man is...thank you for you eloquence Dr. Cornell West
Im lucky to be alive to see him do his thing. Wow, get some!
This feeds my soul in ways I didn't know it was hungry.
I love this man. I wish he had more political power. More people need to know of his work
So bloody good, I'm going to watch it again.
Absolutely exquisite in every way!!! Bravo brother Cornel! Historical address.
"As a black baptist myself, I’m critical but also unapologetic about being a gut-bucket holy ghost black baptist now, because we did produce Otis Redding, I know you all still trying to do that now. We produced Aretha Franklin. I know you, you is working on that. I understand! We produced Donny Hathaway. We produced some folk now! But I love your commitment to intellectual integrity, your fundamental commitment to unarmed truth, and if it leads you outside of the institutional church, that’s fine because for you, that’s what it is to have integrity and you take a stand based on your commitment to intellectual integrity! Shatter the dogma! Shatter the doctrine! if it doesn’t make sense to you! Nothing wrong with that! Free thinker. Cut against the grain! Be transgressive. But at the same time, as I said, truth is always a two-edged sword, because we all fall short. I take very seriously what the great Samuel Beckett, a lapsed Irish Protestant, one of the greatest artists of the most barbaric of all centuries, the twentieth century, said, “Try again, fail again, fail better.” “Try again, fail again, fail better.” That’s what he says in his “Worstward Ho”, his last piece of prose fiction. And that’s a reminder of our own deep humanity. It’s a reminder of what it is to be tied to the earth. But it’s the aspiration that I’m talking about."
This needs to be viewed and loved by every American. Better than his books. This video exposes his soul. We are SO privileged to live in this man's time. Powerful!
why guys like him never talk about the corrupt leaders in africa,,
Powerful message.
Truly a powerful view on how inequalities created by the systems of our time can be resisted and resolved through bringing transparency to segregation on many levels.
Among all the bloodshed and oppression that that is dished out to and from people from many demographics, beliefs and financial status across the globe; it is refreshing to see methods to challenge and counteract such systems.
I respect Cornel input here to really shake all of us to transend such discriminatory borders intentional or not in productive ways to promote love for one another. Not just resistance but acceptance of fellow humans both on a public and political level.
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Love the Otis Redding remark! And, yes, we all have work to do - let's not pretend otherwise.
Knowledge is power
My humble respects to Mr Cornel West
Is there a transcript of this somewhere?
I just love this guy.
how does virtue meet brute force? WITH A CAMERA!!
I was gonna listen until u mentioned black lives matter......
CORNEL YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMY ANY MORE YOUR A SELL OUT!!!!!!
Alex Ventura Don't know what you mean....I've rarely heard West go without mentioning the wrongs of the corrupt power broker.
That is the weirdest , most nonsensical comment I have read this year so far
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois And read his "Credo" also...