Cornel West Speaks Truth to Power: “If you’re not talking about the criminal activity on Wall Street… you’re not telling the truth.” (Video) | AmpedStatus

Cornel West Speaks Truth to Power: “If you’re not talking about the criminal activity on Wall Street… you’re not telling the truth.” (Video) | AmpedStatus


"And we live now in revolutionary times, but the counterrevolution is winning. The counterrevolution is winning. The greedy oligarchs and plutocrats are winning. One out of four corporations don’t pay taxes, been gobbling up billions of dollars. And yet, not just 21 percent of our children living in poverty, of all colors, each one precious, 42 percent of America’s children live in poverty or near poverty. That is sick. It’s a moral obscenity. It’s a national disgrace. And yet, we have a political class, no matter what color they are, that won’t say a mumbling word about that poverty. Why? Because it sits outside of the give and fro between a right-wing, mean-spirited Republican Party, run by the oligarchs and the plutocrats, and a spineless Democratic Party, that’s got ties to the oligarchs and plutocrats, and the poor people get left out. They get invisible, disposable." Full Text Here | AmpedStatus