DN! Cornel West and Carl Dix on Race, Politics in Age of Obama

One week af­ter the NAACP’s 100th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions, we speak to Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sor Cor­nel West and Carl Dix of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Com­mu­nist Par­ty about the cur­rent state of Black Amer­i­ca. West is a pro­fes­sor of re­li­gion and African Amer­i­can stud­ies at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty and the a… Read more

One week af­ter the NAACP’s 100th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions, we speak to Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sor Cor­nel West and Carl Dix of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Com­mu­nist Par­ty about the cur­rent state of Black Amer­i­ca. West is a pro­fes­sor of re­li­gion and African Amer­i­can stud­ies at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty and the au­thor of nu­mer­ous books on race. Dix is a found­ing mem­ber of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Com­mu­nist Par­ty and was one of six GIs in 1970 who re­fused or­ders to go to Viet­nam and served two years in prison for his stance. See the full sto­ry at http://www.democ­ra­cynow.org/2009/7/22/cor­nel_west­_and_­car­l_dix_on

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