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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks whats best for all. – Cornel West

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, thats being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. – Cornel West

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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

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