@Walt
What do you expect from a dude who played in the Matrix and tried to qualify a fukking rap album as an academic publishing?
I'm laughing at this dude @Nigerianwonder talking
about him like he's James Baldwin or something. He WAS impactful and accomplished. He's been an academically and socially useless self-promoting joke for like 3 decades now.
I don't even think I can wade into this shyt here. At this point it's just tragicomic. Cornell West is a buffoon, period. He's an embarrassment to just about anyone who really knows what is what about him and academics in general. He's a scumbag, a whore, a phony, a self-styled celeb, an utter failure in terms of his scholarly work... but he is beyond reproach for most nikkas for the same reason our favorite rappers tend to be - we just don't have many heroes on the public stage, so we tend to ride with the nikkas whose faces continually pop up on the screen, no matter how spotty their records or how scandalous their actions. West is more spectacle than intellectual at this point. He's definitely paid in full though, word to Rakim and Rich Porter.