tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972700259427936400.post3890594735965599291..comments2023-10-19T04:42:17.698-05:00Comments on The Simple Minded's Savior: Cornell West and Tavis Smiley and the Pseudo Intellectual EliteRebel Flowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07597017427688458299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972700259427936400.post-29732503415398832872011-07-31T07:54:58.994-05:002011-07-31T07:54:58.994-05:0040-plus years ago Harold Cruse wrote a book on the...40-plus years ago Harold Cruse wrote a book on the Crisis of the Black Intellectual. It was greeted by the predictable, ego-laced barbershop debate that mimicked many of Cruse's theses.<br /><br />Until the 'talkers' orient themselves to the psychology of 'with or without anyone', rather than seeking or needing a constituency for their proposed visions, then the barber-shop chatter and profiling will continue. Ya gotta live the consequence of your vision, ala John-the-Baptist and what Jesus said in a belated eulogy about J-B, than just be the latter alternative 'icon' of that eulogy.<br /><br />Obama is doing his thing, for better or worse, historically, with the power he has opportunized Let those with alternate visions do the same with the same panache as the quotation, 'L'audace, l'audace. Toujours l'audace!' And do it beyod involvement in petty-crime and other 'part-of-the-problem' activities.hereticalpolemicisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04555369508253277915noreply@blogger.com