Source: Russell Brand
EXCLUSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT: Dr Cornel West Running for President!
Jun 10, 2023 · 11m 22s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_Rcbi43OM
2024 who are you going to vote for these people who hate you or these people that hate you hello there you 6.4 million Awakening wonders thanks for joining me in this Voyage to truth and freedom turn on the notification Bell And subscribe right now it's the only way we can ensure that you get the Fantastic content we make every single day have you noticed that entering
the conversation are voices like Marianne Williamson RFK and now Cornell West who announced exclusively on our show that he is running for president now you know that this channel is attacked for being a right-wing conspiracy theorist Channel how then can it be that Dr Cornell West one of the most treasured icons of the current left darling of Master Class professor at Harvard is saying the exact
things that we say continually on this channel and is indeed has he exclusively announced here on stage three running for president on an anti-corruption platform to the left of the Democrats is it possible now that new categories and new alliances will be formed that Libertarians anarchists people of the true left Independence attendance will come together to attack this turgid stagnant stinking corrupt system I pray that
it is certainly Cornell West's voice in this conversation will prevent it being dismissed as conspiracy theories right wing nonsense and fit only for the hard Maga right this is an important voice in the conversation for change these are the new alliances I'm telling you about this is a credible philosopher offering us a new vision stay to the very end and let me know in the comments
if you would vote for Cornell West in The People's Party is an end to the two-party system precisely what's required let me know in the comments see you in a second Dr Cornell West you have a very important announcement we are honored that you've chosen our platform to make this announcement please tell us why you are here talking to us today well you know my dear
brother that I have been fighting for truth and justice for 55 years beginning when I was 15 years old there in the chocolate side of Sacramento Shiloh Baptist Church and working with the Black Panther Party Never joined the party was deeply deeply committed to their fundamental concern for poor and working people and now 55 years later I've decided to continue that fight for truth and Justice
by running for the president of the USA on the People's Party to ensure that we can reintroduce to America the best of itself and the best of America is Martin Luther King Jr Ella Baker Fannie Lou Hamer Rabbi Abraham Joshua headshot it's Edward Zaid it's Grace Lee Boggs it's Chief Joseph it's a Luisa Marino all of these different peoples of different colors and genders and sexual
orientation to James Bonds and Audrey Lords doing what telling America the truth about itself and the condition of Truth is always to allow the suffering of precious poor and Priceless working people to be heard and yes you're right it is about love because Justice is what love looks like in public but by love what we're talking about is looking at the world through the lens of
those France Fanon called The Wretched of the earth of poor and working people not just in America in the American Empire and this very fragile Democratic experiment in the midst of that Empire but around the world that's another reason why I wanted to be on your show I want to be International I wanted to be concerned about human beings no matter where they are no matter
what color no matter what gender no matter what sexual orientation no matter what national identity and that's why we're calling for a paradigm shift brother we need a spiritual awakening and a moral Reckoning in the face of institutionalized greed that greed has been Wall Street it could be in Silicon Valley can be in Pentagon greed at the top especially and I believe of course we've got
greed inside of all of us but I'm talking about institutionalized greed with predatory capitalist tendencies that tend to suck everything up for money and for profit and then we got the neo-fascism escalating especially in Republican party and what is that that's institutionalized hatred it plays on the fear of people and see Trump speaks to a number of white brothers and sisters who are catching hell who
are in fact in deep trouble who deserve an attention in terms of having their basic needs met that's precisely why I want Medicare for our for all that's precisely why I want free education that's precisely why I want access to living Wages that's precisely why I want to make sure people have access to Quality housing and so the question is you cannot defeat neo-fascism by miltos
neoliberalism there's no way you can do it you got to get at the roots of it you got to bring vision and passion to convince person not people not to follow neo-fascists pied Pipers but actually let them know that there are persons on the so-called left which is simply say persons of Integrity honesty and decency looking at the world through the lens of poor and working
people that's really what it is so I don't want to get into the labels I'm talking about the substance I'm talking about those who really have a deep care and concern about suffering people no matter where they are and in that way you cut against a lot of the truncated public conversation you get a realignment of not just perceptions but of people people finding themselves in
coalitions they had not planned on being there with that's crucial that's exactly what we need and what's at stake my brother you know better than I you talk about it every day the destruction of the species the destruction of democracy not just the American Empire everywhere most importantly is the destruction of our capacity to love though brother because see that's the spiritual that's a spiritual emptiness
so I run as a jazz man of politics because Jazz is about three elements it's about the blues and the blues is about catastrophe catastrophe lyrically Express catastrophe genuinely engage catastrophe transfigured by compassion and Community I come from a blues people the catastrophe of slavery of Jim Crow of Jane Crow of mass incarceration of being taught to hate ourselves and yet here comes my Randy here
come Bessie Smith here come Muddy Waters what are they doing they're telling the truth they're telling the truth about America we're not talking about America's race problems or class problems our gender problems of circular rotational problems no we're talking about catastrophes visited on indigenous peoples visited on black peoples visited on women you're talking about U.S foreign policy it could be in Iran 1953. it could be
in Guatemala in 1951. it could be in Panama it could be in Iraq it could be in Afghanistan those are not problems there were catastrophes visited upon precious human beings in every life in Iran in Tel Aviv in West Bank in Gaza in Afghanistan and Lithuania in Ethiopia each precious life there has the same value as a life in London or a life in California that's
the best of America that's Mark what Martin King was talking about that's what I am running on that's the tradition that runs through my veins that's the tradition that runs through my heart mind and soul and that's what I'm trying to present to the American people as the presidential candidate for the People's Party my brother Blues on the one hand swing is the second element you
have a different conception of time so you don't feel closed in Bound to a two-party system we know the two-party system in America is a major obstacle for the empowerment of poor and working people both parties are in the back pocket of Wall Street in the back pocket of the Pentagon in the back pocket of big money so you need a different conception of time well
here come Duke Ellington like that It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing you got a different conception of temporality it opens up possibilities opens up new potentialities so you thought that cord was closed but here comes monk he got a new note he got a new way of doing hiccup Mary Lou Williams and we're having we're having got the John Coltrane loved
Supreme yet Blues on the one hand swing on the other and then improvisation and this is what I love about you and your show my brother you are improvisational you're flexible you're fluid you're protein you're gonna don't get locked in the Dogma you don't get locked in the ossify petrified ways of looking at the world you got to be new you got to be novel you
got to be open you listen to others you can't be a jazz musician you can't be a blues woman unless you learn how to listen to others jazz is the highest level of democracy in symbolic expression what is the anthem of my black people Lift Every Voice as I Lift Every Echo no what we have and for the most part public discourse in America Echoes us
silos Echoes of silos expressions of very polarized spaces where no one wants to listen and lift their own voices think critically for themselves in such a way that you can improvise improv improvisation is not simply an artistic skill it's a species of phronesis what the Greeks call practical wisdom you have to be able to judge to get your timing right so you tell the truth about
catastrophe on the one hand you authorize a different future in light of a different conception of time in the present and then you improvise and you improvise based on what because you love something bigger than yourself oh what a great people I come from yes indeed and it's not a function of skin pigmentation because there's a whole lot of black gangsters and black thugs I got
a lot of gangster and thug in me but it's people who choose to be creative people who choose dignity people who choose Defiance people who are willing to live and die for something bigger than them and that's very much what we're talking about and that's why we're going to run this campaign in such a way it's going to be so unique and singular and different and
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