Cornel West | |
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| Born | June 2, 1953 Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States |
| Nationality | New Afrikan |
| Political orientation | Democratic socialism Anti-imperialism Anti-Zionism[1] |
| Political party | Green Party |
Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is a Statesian activist and intellectual posing as a progressive, who ran for President in 2024 on the U.S Green Party ticket before abandoning them to run as an independent.[2] His campaign is purportedly based on three goals: anti-imperialism, democracy, and environmentalism. His platform includes providing free healthcare and education and demilitarizing the police.[3] He endorsed the PSL's book Socialist Reconstruction.[4]
Controversies
Cornel West equated the Neo-Nazi Alexei Navalny to victims of the Statesian Empire such as Leonard Peltier and others,[5] voiced support for the Ronald Reagan against the USSR,[6] equated the Civil Rights leader MLK to the fascist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in an article[7] providing support for Ron Desantis's reactionary changes to Florida education curriculum which included replacing Afro-American studies[8] with Classical Learning Tests (CLT), a standardized testing initiative dedicated to restoring "rich intellectual inheritance of Western civilization" to American civilization.[9][10][11] West has been a sitting board member of CLT since 2022.[12]
References
- ↑ Alan MacLeod (2022-03-30). "Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join over 100 Academics Denouncing the Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Lowkey" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-11-14.
- ↑ STEVE PEOPLES (2023-10-05). "Progressive activist Cornel West leaves the Green Party and will run for president as an independent" Associated Press. Archived from the original.
- ↑ Alan MacLeod (2023-08-04). "Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2023-08-06.
- ↑ "NEW BOOK: Socialist Reconstruction, A Better Future for the United States" (2022-09-28). Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2023-04-24.
- ↑ Cornel West. "My prayers are with the precious family of the courageous Russian political prisoner the late Alexei Navalny" Twitter. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
- ↑ Cornel West (2021-01-08). Twitter. Archived from the original on 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
- ↑ “Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. were imprisoned for their views”
Cornel West (2023-5-12). "DeSantis’s Revolutionary Defense of the Classics" Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original. Retrieved 2024-02-17. - ↑ Ana Ceballos (2023-01-19). "Florida rejects new AP high school course on African American studies" Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
- ↑ CLT. About CLT CLT. Archived from the original on 2016-01-31. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
- ↑ “The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.””
Ana Ceballos (2023-02-17). "Florida is considering a ‘classical and Christian’ alternative to the SAT" Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on 2023-03-19. Retrieved 2024-02-17. - ↑ “Proposal: We need an alternative to the College Board that orients people to the perennial truths of the great classical and Christian tradition.
Reality: The @CLT_Exam
already exists, and every serious homeschool, high school, and college should be using it!”
Chad Pecknold (2023-02-09). Twitter. Archived from the original on 2023-02-18. Retrieved 2024-02-17. - ↑ CLT. CLT Leadership CLT. Archived from the original on 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2024-02-17.