Cornel West on Civil Rights

	Cornel West on Civil Rights

Secure the rights of LGBTQ+ and Trans-Peoples

Securing the rights of LGBTQ+ and Trans-Peoples. Source: 2024 Presidential campaign website CornelWest24.org , Aug 7, 2023

Focusing on diversity is a very narrow criteria to use

Q: And how about the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action?

WEST: This began with reparations--an attempt to repair some of the damage done by the barbaric slavery and the vicious Jim and Jane Crow. It shifted to diversity, and that became a very narrow criteria to use. And now that's being called into question.

Source: Politico.com on 2023 Presidential hopefuls , Jul 7, 2023

If you don't have deep solidarity, diversity means little

West said, "if you don't have deep solidarity, [diversity] is not going to go too far. That would be true for Black women in the Democratic Party. They can celebrate all they want in terms of being Black women who gain access to the class and imperial hierarchy--whereas solidarity with Palestinian women who are catching hell, who are occupied--that's solidarity, that's integrity. If you're just talking about identity, politics is empty in the end." Source: Al Jazeera on 2024 Presidential hopefuls , Dec 4, 2020

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