A review by suspendedinair
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West

2.0

between touching on the growth of deadening nihilism and calling on americans to energize themselves in preparation for a democratic awakening, west manages to throw out an insane amount of superlatives (hollllla @ emerson, morrison, baldwin, outkast// hate on: free-market fundamentalism, bling, abscence of accountability, etc) along with a few pages that seem to be randomly shoved into the book.

there's a lot in here: exclusives from the beef with summers at harvard (!), a lot of questions about israel and palestine, talks of the importance of blues and hip-hop in democracy, an attack on materialism, surely you get the point...

i'm gonna buy his album, but this book was really a reminder that we need to hear from a black secularist.