Hat tip Investgative Project on Terrorism
The answer to that question is in name only. The guy is a loudmouth crackpot, who proved it when he showed up at that much ballyhooed Million Muslim March in Washington and lent credence to the 9-11 Truther theory.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/4158/princeton-professor-embraces-9-11-conspiracy
This guy spoke at UC Irvine a few years ago, where he thrilled and delighted administration officials. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of it until it had happened. I would have loved to ask him a pointed question about who carried out 9-11 and ridiculed his equivocal answer.
What a fraud!
That seems to be a rather small piece of the article you linked to, and you overstate what West actually said. What he said is ridiculous, but he didn't endorse a conspiracy theory, he said keep the door open to them. You might have made more impact if you'd also highlighted the white supremacists who shared the platform.
ReplyDeleteThere is too much video and too many witnesses to believe the 9/11 truthers, who have no more credible than the birther truthers. There are videos of the second plane crashing into the WTC. I watched an on-line video once alleging that a missile, not a plane, hit the Pentagon. Unfortunately for that theory, the surrounding freeways were full of morning commute traffic, and all the drivers saw a plane crash into the Pentagon.
Cornel West is a very opinionated man, but not an idiot. One of his better known books is called "Race Matters," and I instinctively think, no it doesn't, its a complete artificiality, whenever I see it. He appeals, because most people his color have a sense that their perceived racial identity is still a handicap, and for non-celebrities in daily life that can be true. But its the wrong point to teach if we want to bring that condition to an end.
In a country where about 17 out of 100, I understand, think Elvis is still alive and about the same think they had encounters with aliens, a guy like this can get a decent following.
ReplyDeleteTo give you the extent and level of their reasoning see
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071226090527AAIJtek
Cornell West is a screwball and it is UCI's continuing mortification that they let him speak there.
Snarls,
ReplyDeleteWe can also keep the book open on whether the moon is made of Limberger cheese. After all, an academic intellectual must examine all sides of the question, right?
Limberger cheese is green?
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