On Monday, prominent civil rights activist and former Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor Cornel West announced that he is tossing his hat in the ring for the 2024 presidential election.
West is running under the People’s Party, which is self described as a “major new independent party that will guarantee health care, housing, quality education, and peace to all.”
“In these times, I have decided to run for truth and justice which takes the form of running for President of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party,” West said during his announcement video shared on Twitter.
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I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself – fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for… pic.twitter.com/u3NYGUbG1S
— Cornel West (@CornelWest) June 5, 2023
“I come from a tradition where I care about you,” West explained before listing some of his running points, such as free healthcare and access to abortion.
“I care about the quality of your life. I care about whether you have access to a job whether living wage, decent housing, women having control over their bodies, health care for all, the escalating the destruction of the planet, the destruction of American democracy,” he argued. “Democracy creates disruption.”
Sounds like another Bernie Sanders, if you ask me.
West proclaimed that “neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon, about Big Tech.”
He then also trashed former President Donald Trump as a “neo-fascist” and President Joe Biden as a “milquetoast neo-liberal.”
“Do we have what it takes? We shall see,” West concluded.
His quest to become president comes almost two years after he resigned from Harvard University’s Divinity School. In 2021, West wrote a scathing letter announcing his departing, in which he cited “decline and decay,” and asserted that he was working in “the shadow of Jim Crow,” which “was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity.”
West tweeted a copy of the letter and commented, “This is my candid letter of resignation to my Harvard Dean. I try to tell the unvarnished truth about the decadence in our market-driven universities! Let us bear witness against this spiritual rot.”
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