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Cornel West Arrested in D.C. On Steps Of Supreme Court

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After attending the dedication of Martin Luther King’s National Memorial in D.C. on Sunday, Dr. Cornel West and a throng of protesters marched to the Supreme Court to highlight a myriad of issues: Wall Street greed, support for the Occupy protesters, and overtaxed workers. West and 18 others were arrested. Dennis Trainor, Jr., host for No Cure For That TV, marched with and interviewed West before being carted off to jail himself:

West acknowledged before he was arrested that since it was King’s memorial dedication, the day probably shouldn’t pass without somebody going to jail. He posited that King, if he were alive, would be right there with the protesters. West then, over a megaphone, pulled a brilliant move: he let the police at the scene know that they weren’t going to get kicking and screaming from the group if they had to haul them off to jail.

“I want to add a special word to my brothers and sisters in the police force, because we want to let them know that we are standing with them as working people as well.”

West and the others were led off without incident and charged with trespassing on the steps of the Supreme Court. He will appear in court at 1:00 p.m. Monday.

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  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    “I want to add a special word to my brothers and sisters in the police
    force, because we want to let them know that we are standing with them
    as working people as well.”

    Was that before or after his buddies in OWS sh*t on a police car?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    “I want to add a special word to my brothers and sisters in the police
    force, because we want to let them know that we are standing with them
    as working people as well.”

    Was that before or after his buddies in OWS sh*t on a police car?

  • Anonymous

    Bro. Corny should be marching on Bro. Barry , who is stirring up the pudding :

    “Having failed to lower the unemployment rate to a politically tolerable level, Obama cannot run as most presidential candidates do — on the economy. So he and his advisers seem to have decided instead to mount a deeply polarizing campaign based on “values” — suggesting his vision for America is correct even if the economy is not right yet.But in waging this battle, Obama is saying nasty and dangerous things. He is promoting his own principles — not just by touting their goodness, but by suggesting that Republicans hold to an offensive, even un-American, philosophy.

    By painting his opposition as not just wrong but evil, Obama risks dividing the nation in a profound and unnecessary way.

    Obama previewed the strategy last April, when he said that the budget produced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and eventually passed by the House was “not a vision of the America I know.”

    In the past several weeks, Obama’s pronouncements on what is American and what is not — and his accusations of bad faith by his opponents — have increased in frequency and intensity.”

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66087.html#ixzz1b2skgNcv

  • Anonymous

    He was protesting the high price of Kool cigarettes, malt liquor, and lottery tickets.

  • Michelle

    Neo-Cannibals, Deadbeats, Dopers and Democrats Occupy Denver

    http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2011/10/occupy-denver/

  • Josh Mckibbin

    That was one person out of thousands.

    “I’m not stupid enough to think he represents the majority of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.” – Stefan Jeremiah (About the photograph you are citing that he took)

    http://www.bearwitnesspictures.com/news52191.html 

  • With you in spirit

    Until the Occupy movement has defined its goals for both it’s own supporters as well as for everyone else, there is really no point to it other than venting frustration. It seems like they’re waiting for someone else to come in and attempt to decipher what they want and put it into a specific list of goals. Until that happens, there will continue to be a disconnect between the visceral and the cognitive.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    If only the tea party were afforded that kind of standard.

    But they weren’t, and neither will OWS be.

    Equality means equal treatment. And since the left wing set the standard as to how protest movements were to be treated in the age of Obama, now they have to abide by those standards. That’s how equality works – everyone will be treated the same.

    And I’m noting it’s difficult for the leftwingnuts to abide by the standards they set for the tea party.

  • Pablo

    Are they standing with them when they call them Nazis?

  • Anonymous
  • Pablo

    “Poverty is the worst form of violence” is perhaps the dumbest damned thing I’ve heard out of these morons. Corny ought to take his Afrocentric ass to Africa and look around a bit. Maybe he could visit Obama’s brother’s hut.

  • Thanks for the laugh

    Ha Ha Ha LOL, First laugh of the day and its a good one.

  • wawoo

    Nice Cracker fest you blithe idiots are having.

  • Anonymous

    Come on really?

    Gloves is  the only RACIST STEREOTYPING PUKE with enough balls to click on like for this one?

  • Anonymous

    Cornel West is the furthest from Martin Luther Kind. MLK Jr. would be embarrassed to have someone like this racist speaking on his behalf.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    Well, it looks like some names for these Nazi, Commie, Pinko (Code Pink that is), Progressives are going around in response to the infamous “Teabagger” insult.  Two of which are “Peebagger” and “Fleabagger”.  While they are not all that original, it’s apt.
    Hey Mediaite, riddle me this, if the Nazi’s had come out and endoresed the Teapartiers where would that story be?  I bet it would be front page news.  Well guess who loves the OWS, that’s right, the Nazi’s.  Wonder how Dr. West feels about that.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Whatever you say, “WiddleBabyDanielson.”

  • wawoo

    American Nazi’s have repeatedly endorsed teabaggery.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Surely. They’ll take all the support they can get.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    American Nazi’s have repeatedly endorsed teabaggery. OWS

    http://whitehonor.com/white-power/the-occupy-wall-street-movement/

  • Michelle

    They sure will.  I hear Communist China is the latest to throw their support behind them.  Nazi’s and Commies.  They must be so proud!!

  • protestsigns.com

    Cornel West is a college professor and that is the best sign he could come up with?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    College professors aren’t what they used to be – that is, accomplished, erudite, knowledgeable, curious, scholarly, interested in education and not indoctrination, etc.

  • Anonymous
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    I love how Mediaite calls getting arrested “without incident”…. as if getting arrested itself is NOT AN INCIDENT.  Then they call the guy getting arrested a “genius” because he tell the cops that he won’t kick or scream at them.  How nice of him!

    Most of all how does Mediaite not mention that the guy who is marching in MLK’s name was the one who just attacked the leading GOP black candidate for “smoking the symbolic crack pipe”?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    Cornel West is a joke. He’s stuck in the 70′s. I’m so sick and tired of hearing about OWS. I think I’m going to OMT, Occupy My Toilet….gotta go. :-)

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