On Racial Terror, September 11th and Cornel West

Sunday, May 25, 2008

On Racial Terror, September 11th and Cornel West

Hillary's debased fantasies of Obama's death, and the liberal racism on display at The Daily Kos, reminded me of one of my favorite Cornel West moments where he links the history of racial terror in these United States to Al Queda's attack on September 11th 2001.

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