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Social media is currently a twitter with the fall-out from the stand-off between two famous black intellectuals, Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson. Once friendly colleagues, their deteriorating relationship has gone public, each one criticizing the other‘s stance on the policies of Barak Obama who has continued to snub both of these Liberals, leaving them to sulk about not being included in the White House inner circle in reward for supporting his presidential campaign. Currently fueling the fire of this feud is the article Dyson wrote for The New Republic Magazine in which he put West in the same “has-been” category as boxer, Mike Tyson, describing him as a one-time formidable fighter currently reduced to being a caricature of himself, seduced by the idea of becoming a pop culture celebrity, increasingly shunned by his peers. Dyson adds insult to injury by further asserting that West’s relentless strident personal attacks on the President are connected to his failed marriages and the frustration that comes with impotency. West’s position has been to put Dyson in a category with Al Sharpton, and contemptuously chide Dyson for modifying his criticism of Obama, considering this flip-flop tantamount to being a sell-out lackey, sucking up to the Establishment. People are taking sides, with each man having his supporters. Other erudite Blacks are disapppointed with both men for what many perceive as a clash of egos, rather than a constructive dialogue about more relevant and urgent black issues. And, naturally, there is a chorus of voices digusted by the airing of dirty laundry by 2 prominent black spokemen, wary that this divisive display will make white detractors happy. What can be said? If the cops ain’t shootin down black men, they’re shootin down each other, be it on the streets with guns or in the halls of academia with verbal bullets. Blacks may have a double consciousness, but it’s becoming increasingly evident that we do not have a collective one. We are not of one mind. We’re all over the place, chasing our tails. Ruff-ruff.

A very eloquent exercise in rhetoric on the part of progressive liberal Cornel West. Ironically, Obama's conservative black critics on the right such as Dr. Ben Carson are equally passionate in their criticism of the president. So Obama is caught in the middle, and that makes him a Centrist - a leader who still has the backing of the majority of black people and who was recently voted the most admired man in the world. He is also the captive of corporate America and all of its tenacles, which include a "bought-and-paid-for" Congress and the military industrial complex. It's time for a wake-up call for those who think this capitalistic country still has an agenda for democracy. America is no longer the land of opportunity; it is the domain of opportunism. The 2ist century has outgrown the unskilled work force and the poor and needy are doomed to be constants in society. I don't agree that Obama is painting a picture that shows America is "doing swimmingly in the black community". He's not that blind. But all he can really do is offer moral support to his down trodden black brethern. The angry voices demanding him to take action offer no viable solutions. He'll be out of office soon and the next president just may be a woman, but don't look for her to take up the cause of feminism. Unless this country is forced to go back to the drawing board, there will be no great change except that which inexolerably comes with time. The POTUS will do whatever is in the best interest of keeping America powerful. Black folks set their expectations too high in thinking that Obama would improve their lot. But they still have Jesus to place their futile hopes in.

I think what I saying is pretty clear, but sometimes it takes English to English translation.

ANOTHER DAY, I WONDER MORE AND MORE. BLACK PEOPLE'S SILENCE,WILL TODAY BE LIKE YESTERDAY,,SINCE YESTERDAY WAS LIKE THE DAYS BEFORE.HARRIET TUBMAN HAD A VISION QUEST FIRE,LED THE ESCAPING SLAVES TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD,CIVIL RIGHTS WARRIORS,THEIR COURAGE AND BRAVERY WAS SHONE... FROM TIME, SEEMS THAT REVOLUTION FIRE HAS GONE.FOR OUR FUTURE RACE,WILL THERE BE A GROWING NEED.WILL THERE BE A RISING, PASSION FOR SOME TO LEAD.///BLACK UNITY TALKS,THERE IS HESITATION AND PAUSE/WILL THERE BE BLACK REBELS WITH A UNITY CAUSE.////DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING HAD A WILD FIRE SPIRIT WITHIN...MALCOLM X,SPOKE BLACK PEOPLE CAN BE A MIGHTY RACE,PROUD OF OUR BLACK SKIN./// BLACK PREACHERS,POLITICAL LEADERS, THEIR VOICES NOT REKINDLING A REVOLUTION FIRE.. ,NOT MANY, RAPPERS,WITH UNITY RHYMES, NOR UPLIFTING OLD NEGRO SPIRITUALS FROM CHURCH CHOIRS./BLACK PEOPLE'S SPIRITS WITHERED,DECAYING LIKE DEAD LEAVES..LIKE BARE AND DARK WINTER TREES.SELF HATRED,BLACK SELF SEGRGATION,GANG WARS IS THE SOUND/,THIS WITH WHITE SUPREMACY POLICAL DOMINATION,ARE THE CHAINS THAT HAVE US BOUND...IF WE CANNOT HAVE PURPOSE AND UNITY. THEN, DEFEAT OF OUR RACE IT WILL BE...////

Thanks CDB

I see what he's saying. When you use the drop down it doesn't load the category selected. You have to select the category twice for it to go to the chosen category.