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#66 In Conversation - Dr. Cornel West

The Malcolm Effect

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Blackness and Pessimism

I think that's a very necessary and pragmatic way of thinking about that separation between folks who want to organize collectively and build coalitions across races. And you know, those suspicions are rightfully had. History teaches us lots of langs. So i don't ever discount those folk as necessarily reactionary. I love them because their pessimism doesn't paralyze im. They still fightin but theafro pessimists tell us is objective, is antological,. Then go off and sip tea in some petty bourgeois space, and then drink a little cognac after their tea. Pessimism i can't respect. Absolutely no.

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