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Cornel West Comments on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize: Hard To Be A War President With A Peace Prize
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/10/cornel-west-comments-on-o_n_316476.html
Dr. Cornel West spoke at the Central Library in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 9, and weighed in on what winning the Nobel Peace Prize will mean for President Obama.
The Princeton University professor and [...]

Now I don’t feel like I was acting out of character or dressing in a manner not befitting to my persona, however I was dressed in a manner that I hadn’t in a long time. I don’t have a name for it but check out the wardrobe.

Its my sentiment that the media in America doesn’t do a good job in showing the varying faces of Black people in America. They would have you believe there were only two types of Blacks that exist in this country. Those that have obtained the ultimate American Dream and those that have a more difficult time obtaining the American Dream.

men…no brothas need to realize that Black women are just as
sensitive, emotional, gentle and vulnerable as any other woman and should be treated with the utmost respect and care because JUST like you all are dealing with “the Black man struggle”

As I sit in a Starbucks sipping on some cool water trying to beat the heat, I am thinking about what I can possibly write to add to the collective at theblackintel. I remember times when I would go to a cafe to get some work completed and I would be the only Black person in the place with a laptop. I felt like a lone ranger.

If you look at this, that’s a picture of President Barack Obama,” Mr. Scott said holding the sign up. “He’s grinning there like here’s the clown from Batman. Underneath that it says Nigga, nigga David Scott. It says you were, and you are, and you always forever shall be but a nigga. If that ain’t it I don’t know what is.”

One in 30 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in their lifetime

Young black women, he tells them, make up a strikingly disproportionate amount of HIV and AIDS cases in the United States. HIV infection is the leading cause of death for black women ages 25 to 34, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.