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An Hour With Scholar, Philosopher and Theologian Dr. Cornel
West
INTRO: "We can look at the Patriot Act I, the Patriot
Act II, the escalating authoritarianism, the violation of
rights and liberties of Arab brothers and sisters and Muslim
brothers and sisters. We can look at the aggressive militarism:
in Iraq today, Syria, Iran, North Korea. It's very dark...[But]
keep smiling, keep fighting, keep thinking keep loving, keep
serving, keep sacrificing. It's not about the win overnight,
it's not about the quick fix, it's not about the push-button
solution. It's about what kind of human being you want to
be, what kind of legacy you want to live," West told
a crowd in Santa Fee late last month.
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:58 An Hour With Scholar, Philosopher and Theologian
Dr. Cornel West
Today on Democracy Now! we spend the hour with Dr. Cornel
West. Described as one of America's most vital and eloquent
public intellectuals, West is a critic of culture, an interpreter
of African American experience, an advocate of social justice,
and an analyst of post-modern art and philosophy.
West says, "I come from a tradition of struggle, of
a particular peoples who have been on intimate terms with
forms of death. American slavery - 244 years - was a threat
of social death... No legal status, no social standing, no
public value. Only a commodity to be bought and sold."
West was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1953. He earned a BA
from Harvard University and an MA and PhD degrees from Princeton
University.
West has written and co-authored numerous books on philosophy,
race and sociology. His Race Matters won a Critics Choice
Award and was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year in 1992. Other works included Keeping the Faith: Philosophy
and Race in American and Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing
Begin, co-authored with Michael Lerner. In 1996 he co-authored
The Future of Race with his Harvard colleague, Henry Louis
Gates, Jr.
He has also produced a hip-hop CD entitled Sketches of My
Culture and recently made a cameo appeared in the movie, Matrix
Reloaded.
West spoke in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 25th at an event
sponsored by the Lannan Foundation.
In his speech, West gives his insight on the continual erosion
of civil rights and liberties in America today, the darkness
and brutality lurking in detention centers across the country,
and a foreign policy guided by aggressive militarism:
"We can look at the Patriot Act I, the Patriot Act II,
the escalating authoritarianism, the violation of rights and
liberties of Arab brothers and sisters and Muslim brothers
and sisters. We can look at the aggressive militarism: in
Iraq today, Syria, Iran, North Korea. It's very dark... [But]
keep smiling, keep fighting, keep thinking keep loving, keep
serving, keep sacrificing. It's not about the win overnight,
it's not about the quick fix, it's not about the push-button
solution. It's about what kind of human being you want to
be, what kind of legacy you want to live."
- Dr. Cornel West speaking at the Lannan Foundation in Santa
Fe, New Mexico on June 25th.
Link: http://www.lannan.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
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Democracy Now! is produced by Kris Abrams, Mike Burke, Angie
Karran, Sharif Abdul Kouddous, Lenina Nadal, Ana Nogueira,
and Elizabeth Press. Mike Di Filippo is our music maestro
and engineer.
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Simba Russeau, Rafael delaUz, Gabriel Weiss, Johnny Sender,
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