'Right-wing white brothers' may 'attempt to kill' Obama
President's extremist pal calls for protection, rips America in 'decline'
Posted: March 30, 2010
9:22 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Cornel West and Barack Obama at 2007 fundraiser |
Speaking at a televised roundtable alongside Nation of Islam Leader
Louis Farrakhan, a personal friend and recent adviser to President
Obama decried "right-wing white brothers" who are attacking Obama and
who "could even attempt to kill him."
Cornel West, an extremist race-relations instructor at Princeton, was speaking last Saturday at the "We Count! The Black
Agenda is the American Agenda" conference in Chicago organized by talk
show host Tavis Smiley. The event was broadcast on CSPAN.
Stated West, "There are a number of highly misguided right-wing white brothers and
sisters who are engaged in assault and attack and could even attempt to
kill him (Obama). So we have to protect our brother. There's no doubt
about that. And we have to keep track of those forces that will lie and
degrade. ... He is our brother. He needs to be protected."
Calling Farrakhan "my dear brother," West went on to claim, "America is an empire in relative decline because of corporate greed,
military overstretch, war in Afghanistan, war in Iraq, drones in
Pakistan and still siding with right-wing forces in Latin America."
West made similar remarks when he introduced Obama on stage at a 2007 Harlem fundraiser attended by about 1,500 people that served as
Obama's first foray into Harlem after announcing his Democratic
presidential candidacy.
At the time, Obama took the stage calling West a "genius."
WND reported West introduced Obama on stage at the fundraiser after first railing
against the "racist" criminal-justice system of the "American empire."
A scan of YouTube clips found West (link:)
introducing Obama at the fundraiser while stating the "American empire is in such a deep crisis" and
slamming the "racist criminal-justice system" and "disgraceful schools
in our city."
"He is my brother and my companion and comrade," said West of Obama.
WND found a video that shows Obama taking the stage just after West's introduction,
expressing his gratitude to West, calling him "not only a genius, a
public intellectual, a preacher, an oracle ... he's also a loving
person."
Obama asked the audience for a round of applause for West.
Obama named West, whom he has called a personal friend, to the Black Advisory Council of his presidential campaign. West was a key point man
between Obama's campaign and the black community.
West served as an adviser on Farrakhan's Million Man March and is a self-described personal friend of the Nation of Islam leader. West
authored two books on race with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr,
who was at the center of a recent controversy in which Obama criticized
Gates' treatment by police outside his home after a report of a
burglary.
Obama a 'light skinned Negro that is non-threatening'
Farrakhan claimed white people voted for Obama in 2008 because the politician "don't (sic) speak with a Negro dialect. A light skinned
Negro that is non-threatening to white people because they can see
themselves in him because he is part them and part us."
Farrakhan went on to claim "the forces that surround power is always the real power."
"President Obama does not run this country," he stated. "President Obama has been chosen to govern white affairs. And if in
that process we get something it won't be because the governing powers
want it but because we organized and forced the government to speak to
our needs."
Other black leaders at last week's roundtable included Rev. Jesse Jackson and executive Tom Burrell. Valerie Jarrett, Obama's
senior adviser, was invited but did not attend, as did Rep. Bobby Rush,
D-Ill., Rev. Al Sharpton, and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
WND reported last week that West, a longtime socialist activist, addressed a socialist
conference at which he declared "socialism has a future" while urging
participants to help Obama.
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