Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, Black-on-Black Racists Lets Boycott all of them.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Like most black people I used to like both Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, but after they made public fools of themselves on the very day that Barack Obama announced his intention to run for president, I started researching them. And during that research I found that their images were merely facades that hid highly ambitious, self-serving, and untrustworthy clowns of the worst kind, and this is not merely my opinion. The most cursory review of the facts will easily bear this out.
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Tavis is the most prolific corporate shill in the Black community, and he’s closely involved with some of the most exploitive corporations of working class people in the country. How can his so-called concern for the poor and middle class coexist with his association with Walmart, and Nationwide Insurance, for example? And how can he claim to be concerned about the Black community and then seek to pad his pockets by promoting R. Kelly, who was tried for allegedly appearing in an underground video of himself molesting a 14 year-old child? Sure he beat the case, but the video is still out there, and it is what it is. http://newsone.com/384692/tavis-smiley-draws-child-rape-criticism-for-publishing-r-kellys-book/
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And how can Cornel West claim to “love Black people” when he has never taught at a school that the vast majority of Black people could afford to attend in his entire career? There are many other things I could list about West, but his coalition with Ralph Nader that got George Bush elected in the 2000 election (Bush won by 537 votes. The Nader-West coalition peel off 97,488 votes in Florida alone), and his mere association with Tavis Smiley says it all. West reminds me of a guy running down the street ranting about fascism after just having lunch with Mussolini.
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So my distaste for these two individuals run far deeper than their criticism of President Obama. The fact is, I’ve written several articles criticizing the  president myself, as I do with every president, but I make sure that my criticisms are constructive, issue specific, and I ALWAYS make sure that I afford the president the respect in which he’s entitled. But the thrust of Tavis and West’s criticisms of President Obama are neither issue specific, nor constructive. In fact, in the case of Cornel West, his criticisms were not only less than constructive, but hovered around a level of immaturity approaching The Dozens. So for the most part Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are simply running around saying, “This guy ain’t no good, and he can’t be trusted,” under the guise of being concerned about poverty.  But after you get past all of the misleading rhetoric and disinformation, the bottom line is this – they’re campaigning for the Republicans as a cure for poverty.
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Thus, their “attacking the messagener” mantra notwithstanding, I’d like to hereby assure both, the two of them, and the world, that my raging distaste for them has absolutely nothing to do with their criticising the Obama. My distaste for these individuals is a direct result of what I perceive as a gaping flaw in their character. Thus, I am far less concerned about WHAT they’re saying, than I am about WHY they’re saying it. It’s the “WHY” that’s so toxic to the Black community.
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I’ve been around long enough to recognize that as African Americas, we’re products of the very same racist environment as White people. As a result, many of us are just as racist toward other Black people as any Hillbilly, and that’s exactly what I see in Tavis Smiley and Cornel West. I never forgot the very valuable lesson that we learned from “Cointelpro“during the sixties when turncoats and snitches were scattered within the civil rights revolution – always keep your eye on the ones acting the most militant. So a good rule of thumb when dealing with suspected turncoats is to ignore what they say, watch what they do – as we speak, Tavis and West are campaigning in the battleground states against Obama, or, for the Republicans.
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So it has long since become clear to me that these two are not the least bit concern about poverty. They’re simply using the term “poverty“as a convenient metaphor to misdirect the people. You see, once their criticism of President Obama backfired on them in Black community, Tavis and West had to find a way to spread their anti-Obama message without generating so much heat, so they simply started using the word “poverty” as a metaphor for “Obama,” much like the Republicans use the word “welfare” as a metaphor for “Black people.” So now, instead of saying, “Don’t vote for Obama, they just use the word  “poverty” to IMPLY that Obama’s presidency is inadequate. It’s an old psychological technique right out of the Republican playbook.
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You see, Tavis Smiley and Cornel West’s motives are exactly the same as Herman Cain’s, but they’re coming from a different direction. At least Herman Cain was honest enough to come at us as a Republican, but Tavis and West are so arrogant that they think the Black community is stupid, so they’re trying to use reverse psychology. Where Herman Cain’s message was, “Black people need to start voting Republican so the two parties will have to fight for their vote,” Tavis and West are playing us stupid in a different way. They’re using militant rhetoric in order to get us to cut our own throats. As I mentioned earlier, that was a technique used by the FBI during the sixties to destroy the civil rights movement.
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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are currently wrapping themselves around Malcolm, Martin, and any other historic Black figure they can think of, and then trying to send the message that Obama’s not being Black enough. Yet, in doing so, they know full well that it’s impossible for President Obama to become more strident in pursuit of exclusively Black issues, because then, the Republicans would use it as a weapon to tear away his White support – and he can’t get anything done without White support. Just imagine what the Black response would be if a White President said, “I’ve got to put things on hold for a moment so I can do something for White people.” Essentially, that’s what Tavis and West are demanding that Obama do, but in race related buzz words.
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So Tavis Smiley and Cornel West have President Obama in a position where if he continues to be the president of ALL the people, they’re going to divide his Black support, and if he caters to their call for him to pay special attention to the Black community, he’s going to have two problems – first, congress is going to dig in, so he won’t be able to get anything passed, and beyond that, it’s going to divide his White support. So instead of doing everything they can to help improve the condition of the poor and middle class (Black and White), Tavis and West are playing silly, self-serving little games to promote their own agenda.
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So why are Tavis Smiley and Cornel West playing these games when they know it’s hurting both the country, and the administration of the first Black President of the United States?
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It’s simple – for spite. As I mentioned previously, since Black people are a product of the very same racist environment as White people, many Black people have attitudes that are just as arrogant, condescending, and racist toward other Blacks as any White person, and this is clearly the case with Tavis Smiley and Cornel West. They think that they’re above us, and that we’re undereducated, unsophisticated idiots that they can play to their advantage.
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You see, contrary to what they would have you believe, these two don’t love Black people – they think they OWN us. They don’t see us as people. They see us as a commodity to be manipulated, bartered and sold. That explains why Tavis and West are so upset with President Obama. When he went around them to get our vote, they feel like he stole something from them..

If you go back and review the video of Cornel West ranting over the fact that Obama decided to hold a press conference to announce his intent to run for President of the United States instead of attending Tavis Smiley’s “State of the Black Union” broadcast, you’ll notice a clear sense of entitlement.

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