February 22nd, 2012 at 2:54AM
We need Melissa Harris-Perry and we need Cornel West, what we don’t need is ad hominem attacks that obscure the inevitable friction between vision and pragmatism, social movement and institutional politics. But most important is we need active Black grassroots social movements to show us as scholars the way. Until we such movements we will continue to have a Crisis of the African American Intellectual. — The Crisis of the African-American Intellectual: What’s to Be Learned From the Cornel West v. Melissa Harris-Perry Debate by Mark Sawyer [Huff Post] (via thenoobyorker)

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