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HARDtalk: Cornel West - Writer and Academic

04/12/2014

Cornel West - Writer and Academic

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Stephen Sackur talks to writer and academic Cornel West, a fierce critic of Barak Obama.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Cornel West, writer, academic and fierce critic of president Obama and asks why the race debate turned sour.

Around the world the election of Barak Obama to the White House was seen as a watershed moment for race relations in America. The first black man to be president was taken as the symbol of a new post-racial era; but six years on, with tensions between black communities and the police running sky high is anyone still talking about a post racial America? HARDtalk speaks to Cornel West, writer, academic and fierce critic of president Obama and asks why the race debate turned sour.

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