Cornel West Arrested During "October Ferguson" Protest

On Monday hundreds of protesters launched another day of demonstrations in Ferguson over the killing of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown. As the people committed acts of civil disobedience well-known activist Dr. Cornel West was not only knocked over during a testy exchange between police officers and protesters, but also arrested.

Cornel Ronald West has called the United States a “racist patriarchal” nation where he believes white supremacy has continuously defined everyday life for African-Americans. West argues the racial injustice has historically attributed to most of the black community’s problems. It has produced a “degraded and oppressed people hungry for self-worth, meaning and identity.” He maintains the emotional scars which have been inflicted by white supremacist beliefs continue to permeate America’s culture and society. As a result, West says, “Blacks feel unprotected, unsafe and subjected to random violence because of who they are.”

West is not only an activist but a public intellectual, American philosopher, author, professor and academic scholar. The majority of his work focuses on race, class and gender in American society. It comes as no

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