“Cornell West has not left the comforts of the Ivy Leagues in over 30 yrs.”

I looking forward to the full interview with West, but based on this excerpt, I agree with pretty much everything he said. People need to understand the modern Democratic Party doesn’t care about the middle class and the working poor. They’re mainly about pleasing their big money donors from Silicon Valley and Wall…

Along with Cory, don’t forget Kamala Harris for not prosecuting Steve Mnuchin and One West Bank for illegally foreclosing on 80,000 California homes. Link: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-has-to-answer-for-not-prosecuting-steve_us_5980d18ee4b09d231a518205

As an old white guy I appreciate Mr. Starr bringing new thought and interreflection into my life. I read the Root everyday now so can learn from a new perspective and others ideas. I may not agree but usually I do. At the very least Mr. West makes me think and makes me care. Thank you all for this interview. …

Smurf,

You idiots need to stop bashing Nina Turner and Bernie Sanders. These people are fighting for systemic change while the neoliberals like Obama, Clinton, and Booker want to keep everything the same. Let us not forget that Booker, a supposedly black progressive, voted against legislation that would have imported cheaper…

You idiots would rather vote for hillary whose husband put millions of black people in jail smh. Nina turner is too good for you. Go vote for another corrupt politician im sure obama feels your pain right now under trump. Im sure he can hear you over the millions he will make from speeches made to wall st

Nina Turner has always been their favorite black person

True Bernie did not create platforms specifically for black people in general but he addressed serious issues that directly affected black people such as overhauling the justice system, shutting down for profit prisons which Hillary would not agree to and by the way are filled with minorities, other things such as…

If I wanted to vote for competence, I sure as fuck wouldn’t vote for the delusional revolutionary who thought we could bomb Libya and Iraq into being functional democracies. When Bernie is too incompetent to bring about his revolution, he’ll just fail to get anything through congress. When Hillary was too incompetent…

I have some sympathy for this position (he’s a little over his head, but he’ll figure the specifics out soon enough), but he’s been arguing from the floor of the Senate that Wall Street execs should have been prosecuted for years. Finding out that he doesn’t know whether there’s even a law under which they could be…