Dr. Cornel West Calls Obama A 'Republican In Blackface'

Also calls out Sharpton, Harris-Perry and Dyson

President Obama is back in office which also means more darts from one-time ally Dr. Cornel West.

In an interview with Democracy Now the scholar called President Obama a "Rockerfeller Republican In Blackface."

His words:

I think that it's morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on an election, $2 billion on a presidential election, and not have any serious discussion--poverty, trade unions being pushed against the wall dealing with stagnating and declining wages when profits are still up and the 1 percent are doing very well, no talk about drones dropping bombs on innocent people. So we end up with such a narrow, truncated political discourse, as the major problems--ecological catastrophe, climate change, global warming. So it's very sad. I mean, I'm glad there was not a right-wing takeover, but we end up with a Republican, a Rockefeller Republican in blackface, with Barack Obama, so that our struggle with regard to poverty intensifies. 

Dr. West also had words for Obama supporters Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry saying that they were all "for sale."

"I love Brother Mike Dyson… but we’re living in a society where everybody is up for sale," said Dr. West. "Everything is up for sale. And he and Brother Sharpton and Sister Melissa and others, they have sold their souls for a mess of Obama pottage. And we invite them back to the black prophetic tradition after Obama leaves. But at the moment, they want insider access, and they want to tell those kind of lies. They want to turn their back to poor and working people."

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