It’s not extremist NOT to vote with fascists destroying the country.

West was thirsty for attention and when he didn’t get it, he demonized the President and anyone that supported him. I agree with a lot of West’s critique of Obama’s policies, but couldn’t abide his unjustified attacks on Obama’s character. He’s gunning for Coates in the same way. Worse, he is defining his line of…

Damon, I really appreciate this piece. And I agree with you. I had two thoughts reading the piece and this comment:
1) I know that black people aren’t a monolith, but I wish that black intellectuals would focus on working together and dealing with the larger issue rather than nit picking each other. I think that finally…

Also, just to be clear, I still very much admire and respect Dr. West. He’s done so much — and he’s still doing a lot. But I really believe that, although many of his criticisms of Obama were valid, the way Obama didn’t really make space for him hurt him deeply, and that seems to be affecting his public work now.

Yeah, intelligence doesn’t work that way. Carson’s got a bad case of Engineer’s Disease: thinks that because he can solve one very specific kind of problem, that means he knows how to solve all the problems.

Doctors can be just as stupid as anyone else. As one commenter already noted, they are basically mechanics for the body. This isn’t to disparage mechanics - it’s just that there’s this unearned reverence for doctors as gods among men when really they’re, at best, just like everyone else in any other occupation, along…

A dangerous and insidious attitude. As soon as you make getting a seat at the table a priority then all that happens is you start giving up ground to keep your seat at the table. Either the people already at the table care about your needs or they don’t, and if they don’t then any attempt to get a seat at the table is…