TAVIS SMILEY (21 July 2013): What’s your sense of how the media and not just Fox News, but beyond that your read as you’ve been watching this, how the media handled this case?
CORNEL WEST: I think that it’s been decrepit though brother. You get a focus on some of the upper middle class folks or what I call the rent a Negro phenomenon on msnbc.
TAVIS SMILEY: Ha ha ha ha ha!
CORNEL WEST: And how this affects them personally and what they can say to their kids and they feeling distant and alienated from the state. Well many of us have been feeling alienated an over against the state for forty something years.
MSNBC 'Rent A Negro' Network With 'Upper Middle Class' Views-- Cornel West
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