Dans la strat\u00e9gie de r\u00e9\u00e9lection de l’habile BHO, les Noirs, pardon, la communaut\u00e9 africaine-am\u00e9ricaine, sont per\u00e7us comme quasiment un \u00e9lectorat captif. Il ne doit pas faire de doute qu’ils voteront en masse pour le pr\u00e9sident africain-am\u00e9ricain. Mais est-ce bien s\u00fbr ? N’est-ce pas faire une analyse empreinte de racisme que de pr\u00e9juger qu’on votera pour un candidat \u00e0 cause de la couleur de sa peau et sans autre consid\u00e9ration, alors que l’\u00e9lection de 2008 de BHO est cens\u00e9e nous avoir prouv\u00e9 que, dans l’American Dream<\/em> version postmodernis\u00e9e, le racisme n’a plus sa place ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tNous avons donn\u00e9 un petit \u00e9cho \u00e0 une d\u00e9claration<\/a> du professeur de Princeton, africain-am\u00e9ricain, Cornel West. Voici maintenant une vigoureuse d\u00e9nonciation de cette d\u00e9claration, ou plut\u00f4t du personnage qu’est West, par un autre Africain-Am\u00e9ricain, ancien des Black Panthers<\/em> et dont on peut appr\u00e9cier qu’il a gard\u00e9, lui et \u00e0 la diff\u00e9rence de nombre de ses amis, nombre de ses convictions. Larry Pinkney a refus\u00e9 la r\u00e9cup\u00e9ration par le Syst\u00e8me, et c’est au nom de cette position qui n’est pas courante qu’il lance son attaque contre West (dans Intrepid Report<\/em>, le 8 avril 2011<\/a>). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abIn a nauseating display of opportunistic alacrity, Cornel West, while being interviewed by Marina Portnaya of Russia Today television (broadcast on April 4, 2011), had the unmitigated audacity to state that Barack Obama is becoming a pawn of big finance and a puppet of big business, as if he somehow did not realize three years ago that Barack Obama is a puppet and a pawn, and he was even then, back in 2008, an obvious Wall Street, corporate-backed puppet and pawn! It was Cornell West himself who was among those intellectuals’ who urged everyday people to critically support Obama, which terminology is, in and of itself, a ridiculous contradiction in termssomething like the the phrases military intelligence’ or friendly fire.’ One does not support, critically or otherwise (no matter what his or her color), a person who is a systemic creation and has no de facto motivation other than personal ambition; and it defies all reason to assume that Dr. West, this pontificating, academically well adorned intellectual, was somehow intrinsically unaware of this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMoreover, Cornel West, in this Russia Today interview, without so much as flinching, stated that people in this nation in these years under Obama have been sleep walking. Yet, Dr. West, opportunistically neglected to point out that he himself is among those who are responsible for what he described as the present sleep walking state of mind of the American’ people. He needs to clearly and consistently acknowledge his own role in helping to facilitate and bring about this mental\/political stupor [i.e. sleep walking], and its concomitant dangers and horrors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbFinally, Dr. West, when asked to explain his heretofore political support for Obama (which was in addition to that of an inordinate and enormous amount of known corporate financial support) gave the utterly pathetic response that many ordinary people gave him [Obama] money too as if that justified his actions. Dr. West’s response failed to mention that the support for Obama from ordinary people was, in part, due to his (and others of a similar ilk’s) support for the man that he now conveniently characterizes as having become a pawn of big finance and a puppet of big business. What cynical opportunism and manipulation!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPerhaps, the so-called radical democratic awakening in the American Empire to which Cornel West made reference in the Russia Today interview, will include an awakening to how persons such as himself sold out the needs, hopes, and dreams of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people nationally and globally. The severe damage that alleged leaders, including Cornel West, have done to everyday people of all colors is not negligible and is extremely reprehensible. There is absolutely no excuse for it. Will Dr. West put his finger in the air again to sense which way the political winds are blowing? Is yet another political flip-flop in the making on the part of Dr. West?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPolitically conscious people await Cornel West’s acknowledgement and public self-criticism for his dastardly role in facilitating the sleep walking and the pimping of the pain of the everyday American’ people. If there is even any possibility for redemption of, or trust for him, he must do this. He cannot pretend that he has stood with the people all along. He has not.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbNow that Barack Obama has announced that he will run for re-election with his billion dollar campaign war chest, thereby blatantly checkmating any in the Democrat Party who might have envisioned challenging him, it is, more so than ever before, incumbent upon everyday people to seek, and creatively build, serious alternatives to the death grip of the corporate Democrat and Republican Parties. We must begin at the local level while simultaneously building a national everyday people’s network.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n