'Obama is black mascot of Wall Street,' says varsity professor |
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New York, May 20 ANI: A leading African-American intellectual has reversed his support for Barack Obama, calling the U.S. president Wall Street's black mascot. Cornel West, a professor at Princeton University's Center for African American Studies, had previously supported Obama and took part in 65 campaign events during the president's election year. But in an interview that with the website Truthdig, West attacked the president for not being true to his race and dismissed him as a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.' West also said: 'I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. It's understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin." The White House is yet to react to the criticism, the Daily Mail reports. West has previously made similar, if less powerful, comments about Obama. In an interview last year with NPR he said he would rather the president were more 'Martin Luther King-like', invoking the name of the most revered civil rights leader. ANI Posted by aniin on Saturday May 21 reply Comments |
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