CORNEL WEST: THE AGE OF OBAMA IS OVER
Moving on to class warfare and criminal justice, he stated:
It’s very sad that Wall Street executives can go free, and drone droppers can go free, and torturers can go free, but police who kill our precious children walk free. And we weep, and we do fight back, but there’s been a class war and a kind of racial war against black and brown youth. And when you get a case like Ferguson, only one out of 11,000 cases did not, did not, have grand juries that do not deliver an indictment, here you get one out of that 11,000, but that’s just the peak of the iceberg.
Ignoring Obama’s fanning of the racial divide, West continued, “The sad thing is we have a black president and a black attorney general, we have a black head of Homeland Security, but not one federal prosecution of a case against a policeman killing a black youth under the five-and-a-half years where we’ve had all black folk in place.”
turned the Panthers Loose
When asked why he had tweeted that “Obama’s empty neutrality, moral bankruptcy and political cowardice is now undeniable to even his most loyal cheerleaders and boot-lickers,” West seized the opportunity to lump Israel together with the Russian jackboot. He managed to include a defense of Edward Snowden and to climax with a final attack on America's "Jim Crow" justice system:
