Cornel West rejected job with hypothetical Kamala admin

West spoke with the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc at the Abandon Biden convention, hosted down the street from the Democratic National Convention. He denied in strong terms that he had ever been a fan of “top cop” Vice President Kamala Harris and accused her of complicity in genocide.

 

“No way,” he responded, laughing when asked by Datoc if he would accept a position in the administration to enact change from the inside.

 

“If you want something crucial like genocide… you’ve got to have a social movement on the outside that generate leaders who have a history of being anti-genocide,” he continued. “You can’t have leaders who’ve been tied to genocide most of their career, and act as if they’re going to make a promise and then try to bring you in. You get co-opted, and you end up selling out, and they turn away from their prompt what they’ve done all the time, but they can’t meet the promise of dealing with poverty, wealth inequality, mass incarceration, that one isolated politician who’s been tied to say all this time is going to do that. No, no, not at all.”