An outspoken radical, famed Black studies scholar Cornel West said he was running “for truth and justice.” His proposals include ending all support to Ukraine, forgiving student debt and providing free housing and a living wage.
Then-President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cornel West and poet Sonia Sanchez, after delivering remarks at the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in 2010. announced that he was running for president on the People’s Party platformAn outspoken radical, West said he was running “for truth and justice.” His proposals include ending all support to Ukraine, forgiving student debt and providing free housing and a living wage.
Educated at Harvard and Princeton, West is now on the faculty of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. There, he holds a chair named for Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor who was murdered by the Nazis for criticism of their poisonous regime.“Neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon and Big Tech,” he said on Monday.Cornel West at Princeton University in 1994.
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