America. Americas misunderstands black rage as always being connected to revenge. It can be connected to black love. This is what love looks like in public, tenderness is what feels like in private. He was a tender man too just like malcolm. He was a sweet man. But he had a deep commitment to justice. When he died 72 of americans disapproved of him. 55 of black people disapprove of martin when he died. Everybody loves him now that the worms got him. The fbi said he was the most dangerous man in america. How come . So much love. So much fire. Why was that he was unpopular at the end . A critique of empire, the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, he was telling the truth, vietnam, trying to organize all poor people beyond civil rights, adding humanrights, and talked about in 64 going to the united nations, bringing america to try for the violation of human rights of black people. That is the marvin it scared folks. And understandably so. When you are working at that level of love
Next cornel west discusses his book followed by an interview at the 31st annual Miami Book Fair international. [applauding] association, thank you. I am a multimedia journalist at channel 5 news in West Palm Beach and Vice President for the National Association of black journalists, the miami for lauderdale chapter and the am very happy to introduce two special guests today. Dr. Cornel west is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, a professor of philosophy and christian practice at Union Theological seminary and Professor Emeritus at princeton university. The also taught at yale, harvard and the university of paris. Graduated from harvard and obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. He has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. He appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and cspan and he also made his film debut in the matr
Freedom of our people. That is why we are talking about when we talk about Martin Luther king. He is the product of a tradition, comes out of a rich tradition, Brother Moses is in arizona somewhere. He understands that. What happens to Martin Luther king jr. . He gets sanitized and sterilized because that much black glove and fire is always a threat to america. Americas misunderstands black rage as always being connected to revenge. It can be connected to black love. This is what love looks like in public, tenderness is what feels like in private. He was a tender man too just like malcolm. He was a sweet man. But he had a deep commitment to justice. When he died 72 of americans disapproved of him. 55 of black people disapprove of martin when he died. Everybody loves him now that the worms got him. The fbi said he was the most dangerous man in america. How come . So much love. So much fire. Why was that he was unpopular at the end . A critique of empire, the greatest purveyor of violenc
So my educated some mild literate black people hope through organizing for democracy and then a Political Revolution and calling for black power and determination. The whole idea is impossible without stokely carmichael. Selfdetermination and black people thinking of themselves in ways that in the 1960s were profoundly in some ways impossible, eloquent, beautiful, intelligent, have the right to disagree with each other and the mainstream, it is impossible without stokely carmichael. I guess we are going to take some questions at some time. I will conclude by saying, the saying, the most important thing to me was providing an introduction to a whole new generation of americans who did not realize the profound impact that he had on american democracy. Providing an introduction, whether you agree or disagree, it was always personally sincere. His sincerity and love and passionate belief is what really stands out. The fact that he really walked the talk. This is this is someone who did not
Association, thank you. I am a multimedia journalist at channel 5 news in West Palm Beach and Vice President for the National Association of black journalists the miami for lauderdale chapter and the am very happy to introduce two special guests today. Dr. Cornel west is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, a professor of philosophy and christian practice at Union Theological seminary and Professor Emeritus at princeton university. The also taught at yale, harvard and the university of paris. Graduated from harvard and obtained his a and b hd in philosophy at princeton. He has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. He appeared frequently on the colbert report, cnn and cspan and he also made his film debut in the matrix and was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004, his latest book black prophetic fire with a distinguished