Cornel West Explains Why He Won’t Stop Criticism of Obama

By Jamilah King Oct 09, 2014

In the latest public discussion as part of her scholar-in-residence series at The New School, bell hooks talked with Cornel West about what it means to be what she called a "dissident intellectual." At about the 46:11 mark, West says, "When I called [Obama] a black puppet of Wall Street oligarchs, they didn’t accent ‘Wall Street oligarchs,’ they just talked about the puppetry."