Cornel West on Tavis Smiley - Part 1

Tavis Smiley speaks with Cornel West about his new album.

[@bensonchad]

I saw Dr West at Winston Salem State University tonight. I was inspired by him to spend part of my blessing in this life helping those less fortunate than me. He taught me..there is no cure, but there is progress.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

DAMN I miss The Tavis Smiley Show

[@YeekTV_Atlanta]

Man... me too!!!

[@djb10]

i was hoping this would get posted. thanks

[@lordcron]

This man's existence is a must.

[@michc87]

read his book, Race Matters, very insightful regardless of race.

[@whocrusader5179]

1:06

[@mass2293]

Lupe sent me here!

[@poetuvdapeople]

Cornel West evokes the black brillance of the past (think of Dubois), the present (himself, Dyson, Angelou and others), and the future (me and the others like the one who posted this video and the others who've left insightful comments)..... Peace and Love to you all!!!

[@mcshach9982]

Lupe brought me here

[@cesrun1]

I wonder if cornel and tavis were given a special invitation to the oresidential innaguration, and they were on the world stage, if their distructive behaviour would have been less poisonous? I do agree with professor Melissa Harris on the personal attack and its lack of productivity. what has cornel done for the people he is so-called concerned about. Cornel and Tavis want attention and they are showing their jealousy. Their behaviour is shameful I will not join in with others to hurt.

[@rodeo179]

Cornel West is hated by Lawrence Summers fans, ADL crowd, zionists, neo-cons, etc. So, plenty of ignorant folks who will put him down. Hence, not surprised to see hate-filled comments here

[@monty50ful]

I'm willing to bet anything that Travis picks bugs out of Carnels head....dame he looks like a canable lord have mercy.

[@lawndog6794]

hahaha fuck sakes, a show with a black host and the walmart ad has all black people in it. striving to be part of the community..... am i too cynical?

[@tommybrown187]

you have to be commited to TRUTH youre not commited to the narrow sensibilities or sentiments of your audience.you want to UPLIFT your audience.CHALLANGE your audience

[@cnucmecnu]

@BrotherJR76 the word is spelled saddest...

[@DLSMaster]

I wish peple stop disin him he is the greatest mondern & postmondern thinker that GOD made. I have several of his books one called Race Maters another The Cornel West Reader & I have his CD CORNEL WEST & BMWMB Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations. He's is a person that will make you wake the H**l up & take a stand up for human rites, human freedom & human dignity. His words is filed with knowlege of the heart, wisdom of the soul & intellect of the mind. Peple can learn alot from him

[@polymath7]

I don't see how he could possibly be said to *challenge* his audience. This is laughable. West is little more than a grocery list of preacher man platitudes.

[@polymath7]

If you are inclined to suspect I am a racist, go to a video called The Real Eve, part one. Click on 'see all comments', and scroll down to an exchange I had several months ago with a white supremacist who called himself 'hahawhat'. You will see that I was far more brutal with him than I have been with you.

[@donnie350]

yeah good stuff, but could have done without the Commercials, especially the walmart one...=D

[@cnucmecnu]

Cornel West doesn't even come close to being comparable to W.E.B. Dubois, IMHO ...

[@LOUDsigh]

cnucmecnu i fnt like comparing across generations... but cw def n dubois gootsteps as a member of intelligentsia. Academia has proven 2b helpful 2blk struggle as a whole, i personally i side w/ Booker T. as he didnt perpetuate labor is gr8r than school...

[@marvinhagler4721]

Does he have to....

[@worldfamous09]

Cornel west @ 1:23

[@Manik2Magik]

@cesrun1 What's shameful about them?

[@polymath7]

Where did I suggest I "know it all"? Was there EVER a person of exceptional intelligence ANYWHERE who was not frequently accused of thinking he "knew it all"? You made assertion, and I rebutted it, nor was anything approaching omniscience required to do so. My "jibberish" is in fact unimpeachably lucid English prose. If you find it abstruse, perhaps it is you who ought to read more. I again call your bluff; how does anything I have said belie a lack of research? -be prepared to say why.

[@specialsunnyd]

I do.

[@polymath7]

B-II ...a liability, you would do well to cultivate a similar misfortune, were it not beyond grasp of your intelligence. My application of "pseudo-intellectual" is semantically unassailable even if my assessment of West is entirely mistaken. You lose.