tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post1022133866377483871..comments2023-11-05T02:09:28.593-08:00Comments on The Wattree Chronicle: Tavis, West, and MalcolmEric L. Wattreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-26641648796718480292012-12-16T20:51:45.999-08:002012-12-16T20:51:45.999-08:00I am sure that you can see that all that you are s...I am sure that you can see that all that you are saying can and is being said about Sharpton perry dyson and obama.<br />gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-33027690854388898802012-11-18T18:00:32.064-08:002012-11-18T18:00:32.064-08:00Excellent post, thank you so much. West and Smiley...Excellent post, thank you so much. West and Smiley are prime examples of crabs in the bucket. I look forward to reading more from you.Sandra Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11871849887888793449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-25815877649820506112012-11-18T12:53:59.776-08:002012-11-18T12:53:59.776-08:00Thank you Wattree,
I found your blog a few months ...Thank you Wattree,<br />I found your blog a few months back and have regularly (lurked) turned here for your insightful narrative.<br />I was wondering if/when anyone was going to speak out on West and his cronies and sure enough here you are.<br /><br />"Some of us have allowed ourselves to be bedazzled by two words - Harvard and Princeton." Yeah, that is very deep and alarmingly true. And I think also a part of our American culture as a whole that allows anyone with a "prestigious" degree or letters after their name carte blanche to say and do damn near whatever they want.<br /><br />Excellent article, right on point, insightful and informative. Written in clear language with back up examples that I hope will open the eyes of those still blind to Tavis and West's agenda.ABWhttp://awakeblackwoman.blog.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-13778207260043110402012-11-18T11:49:29.328-08:002012-11-18T11:49:29.328-08:00Koffie,You said,
"It is true that West is no...Koffie,You said,<br /><br />"It is true that West is not looking out for the "Black community." He actually has bigger sights and is looking out for HUMANITY!"<br /><br />Was West also "looking out for humanity" when he teamed up with Ralph Nader to help elect George W. Bush? Gore lost the 2000 election to Bush in Florida by 537 votes, and the Nader/West coalition peeled off 97,488 votes from Gore in Florida alone.<br /><br />And how about speaking a little truth to the power of his buddy that he's in bed with, Tavis Smiley:<br /><br />WELLS FARGO PAYS $175 MILLION TO SETTLE LAW SUIT FOR ‘GHETTO LOANS’ HAWKED BY TAVIS SMILEY<br />.<br />"If Tavis Smiley was white, Wells Fargo and ‘Ghetto Loans’ would be front page news," 'wrote Genma Stringer Holmes, a Nashville, Tenn., business owner and blogger who has blasted out several posts on the seminars."' <br /><br />http://washingtonindependent.?com/59633/suit-alleges-truste?d-black-figures-drew-minoriti?es-to-high-rate-loans . <br /><br />"WELLS FARGO HIRED TRUSTED BLACK FIGURES TO ALLEGEDLY DRAW MINORITIES TO HIGH-RATE LOANS" <br /><br />"Tavis Smiley Headlined Seminars Targeting African Americans"<br /><br />http://www.mysanantonio.com//?business/article/Wells-Fargo-?to-pay-175-million-3703567.ph?p <br /><br />It's Time to Boycott Tavis, West, and All Black on Black Racists <br /><br />http://wattree.blogspot.com/2?012/09/its-time-to-boycott-ta?vis-west-and-all.html <br /><br />So Koffie, I don't know you, so I can't say whether you're a fool or not, but you're certainly being hornswoggled like one. They mentioned people like you in one of the articles above. specifically, they said,"People who follow Tavis will follow him over a cliff." Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-3122887302468117012012-11-18T11:45:38.620-08:002012-11-18T11:45:38.620-08:00Anonymous,
I'll go check out your link.
Than...Anonymous,<br /><br />I'll go check out your link.<br /><br />Thank you.Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-7983350543986311552012-11-18T11:43:39.969-08:002012-11-18T11:43:39.969-08:00Thank you, Ebogan63,
for taking the time to read ...Thank you, Ebogan63,<br /><br />for taking the time to read it.Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-56716571740739411822012-11-18T11:41:41.112-08:002012-11-18T11:41:41.112-08:00Grady,
sure the establishment has pushed Sharpton...Grady,<br /><br />sure the establishment has pushed Sharpton, Perry. Dyson, and Obama. But there's a big difference - all of the above bear some semblance to what they're represented to be. Cornel West, on the other hand, is a total fraud. Both his behavior, and reckless pronouncements, demonstrate without a doubt, that he's certainly not an intellectual. He might play one on t.v., but there's a big difference between playing an intellectual, and actually being able to think.Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-64397455200151741462012-11-18T11:30:11.098-08:002012-11-18T11:30:11.098-08:00Tosha,
I think you just about said it all. You...Tosha,<br /><br />I think you just about said it all. You've laid out a perfect assessment of these two demagogues, and I can't, for the life of me, figure out why everybody can't see it.<br /><br />Thank you. Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-39630041282295009212012-11-18T11:22:20.254-08:002012-11-18T11:22:20.254-08:00Hmmmmmmm,
I certainly hope you're more accura...Hmmmmmmm,<br /><br />I certainly hope you're more accurate in your other assessments in life - but somehow, I doubt it.Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-68572550325459112212012-11-18T10:24:22.192-08:002012-11-18T10:24:22.192-08:00You're right on target here, Susan.
Not only ...You're right on target here, Susan.<br /><br />Not only are Tavis and West demagoguing the facts, but they're fighting the wrong war. They're fighting the last war, while we're currently knee-deep in a class war. So their message of division among the poor and middle class is lends comfort to the enemy. Yes, I know, their rhetoric speaks of ALL of the poor, but the underlying message to Black people speaks race and division.<br /><br />One last thing - I wonder if Hillary wouldn't have been able to make Tavis' program and offered to send Bill in her place, do you think Tavis would have turned Bill down they way he did Michelle? Hmmmmmmm . . .Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-1958205922764403752012-11-18T10:11:18.087-08:002012-11-18T10:11:18.087-08:00Thank you, Anonymous.
Watching Tavis and West is ...Thank you, Anonymous.<br /><br />Watching Tavis and West is like "Dejavu all over again." But they're depending on our ignorance of history not to recognize that fact.Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-55384988621581131492012-11-18T10:08:06.374-08:002012-11-18T10:08:06.374-08:00Thank you, Flavinus.
Please add me on your contac...Thank you, Flavinus.<br /><br />Please add me on your contact list and send me some of what you have to say. Since none of us corner the market on either wisdom,knowledge, or intelligence, we must assume that we're all a unique source of knowledge. So you may say something that further stimulates my own thinking. Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-80407925941959284982012-11-18T09:56:41.898-08:002012-11-18T09:56:41.898-08:00You're very welcome, anonymous.
The key is, n...You're very welcome, anonymous.<br /><br />The key is, not to allow them to form an elitist clan. Knowledge is free, and there's just as much knowledge online or at the corner library as there is at Harvard and Yale. So the challenge for the Black community is to modify our mores to the point where we assess each other's value based on knowledge rather than bling. Knowledge is knowledge, so Harvard's water is no wetter than our own. Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-18087158902811734392012-11-14T20:13:48.306-08:002012-11-14T20:13:48.306-08:00Great article - I for one lost all respect fo Tavi...Great article - I for one lost all respect fo Tavis Smiley when President Obama first ran for president and he wanted him to choose to attend a black conference to prove his blackness and basically at the time appeared to support Hillary over Obama. I am very surprised to hear about Dr. West position regarding other well respected members of the black community. <br /><br />Its quite ridiculous to think President Obama should prove himself to black people. He has to govern for the entire country and blacks are not a majority. He has proven himself as a defender of the middle class. The last time I looked many blacks were poor or in the middle class. Therefore all policies regarding, education ie student loans, increasing pell grants etc,<br />the health care plan, laws to assist homeowners, the formation of the consumer protection bureau (to protect consumers normally the most uninformed). Appointing a black Attorney General..just to name a few..EXCUSE ME but does all these not benefit Blacks. I am confused here. <br /><br />Keep up the great work and expose these two for who they really are.. the black community is already on to them and if they are not.. thanks to you they soon will be.<br /><br />Susan BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-57437947049201210732012-11-14T11:52:20.639-08:002012-11-14T11:52:20.639-08:00The COINTELPRO analogy was spot on.The COINTELPRO analogy was spot on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-56918880341884671012012-11-13T18:40:00.522-08:002012-11-13T18:40:00.522-08:00Are you a fool, or is Cornel West the ONLY Black p...Are you a fool, or is Cornel West the ONLY Black person in this country daring to speak truth to power?<br /><br />It is true that West is not looking out for the "Black community." He actually has bigger sights and is looking out for HUMANITY!<br /><br />Obama, as the Commander-in-Chief, has been killing people--women and children included--via wars FOR EMPIRE, assassinations by drone bombings, a weekly "Kill list," and the "collateral damage" of large scale civilian death. Are you seriously okay with this? Do you really think Brother Malcolm X would be OK with this!?! (Shameful of you to even suggest)!<br /><br />Sharpton and Dyson might have sold their souls easily, but are you also OK with all the shit that Obama has been doing--things that Sharpton and Dyson would probably protest if they were done under Bush.<br /><br />Stop thinking like an American; start thinking about humanity.koffee-kommiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01649516541115034956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-89915220160051219772012-11-13T05:54:55.923-08:002012-11-13T05:54:55.923-08:00Sooooo agree - www.couragelive dot comSooooo agree - www.couragelive dot comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-38224792361647701322012-11-13T05:01:30.651-08:002012-11-13T05:01:30.651-08:00SO YOU SEEM TO ONLY POST THE ONE PERSON WHO AGREES...SO YOU SEEM TO ONLY POST THE ONE PERSON WHO AGREES WITH YOU IN TOTALITY!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-58886055309965905412012-11-12T21:00:01.983-08:002012-11-12T21:00:01.983-08:00Thank you for this post. I came across an article ...Thank you for this post. I came across an article on the Grio and wanted to find out more information in regards to the feud between Cornel West and Melissa Harris Perry which led me to your blog. The one thing that I did notice that was spelled out was the fact that Tavis Smiley and Cornel West failed to say anything about the Trayvon Shooting. Now, I know why which isn't surprising given Tavis Smiley history when he was being sponsored by Wells Fargo who had a heavy hand in issuing high interest subprime loans when he was advocating home ownership. Now that all of the companies in regards to ALEC and Tavis and Cornel's ties to those companies have been laid out, I am convinced that they need to be called out on their BS and chastised by the greater community. Don't get me wrong. There is room when it comes to criticizing Obama on issues such as Wall Street Reform and the Prison Industrial Complex and there will always be different forms of opinion between Blacks and Progressives. However, there is nothing that riles me more than self-serving empty vessels who proclaim to be advocates of the downtrodden when their actions have proven otherwise. And what tangible solutions have they offered aside from selling books? None. Excuse me for my rant. However, I am tired of these two self-annointed clowns being held up as spokesmen for the poor and Black People -- especially when they haven't stated anything beyond the obvious problems of inequality within the U.S. And I don't care what anyone says in support of those two. When you get beyond or past their rhetoric, there is nothing insightful, let alone depth to what they express. That is why I have always found these so called Black State of the Union Addresses to be a waste of one's intellect and time. I hope more "true" intellectuals will speak out against Tavis/Cornel and hold Cornel's feet to the fire in regards to his Sexism. Maybe, then people will focus on real solutions that incorporates community involvement with political accountability.Toshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09687084418098532703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-84438063918283908852012-11-12T19:49:47.097-08:002012-11-12T19:49:47.097-08:00wow. so the white press hasnt pushed sharpton, per...wow. so the white press hasnt pushed sharpton, perry, dyson, or obama? so they arent the same self serving clowns as west and smiley? and to believe that the rhetoric one hears from west and smiley is militant makes me wonder just what militants you have heard lately.gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-40295181174660896202012-11-12T16:52:48.140-08:002012-11-12T16:52:48.140-08:00Thank you for your most eleoquent take down of the...Thank you for your most eleoquent take down of these silly race hustlers.<br /><br /><br />ebogan63Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-7342406051290683552012-11-12T15:51:29.136-08:002012-11-12T15:51:29.136-08:00You've gained a reader today Bro. Wattree, I&#...You've gained a reader today Bro. Wattree, I've been challenging West, Smiley and Watkins for some time now.Flavinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05873087776677152355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-36050722406382123882012-11-12T15:07:05.823-08:002012-11-12T15:07:05.823-08:00Some of your prose if that is the right word is on...Some of your prose if that is the right word is on point. However, you did not address a very important point: when in our history has blacks not acted like "crabs in a barrel"? It's bad for all of us. I say this to say we have a few pundits (journalists, television hosts) right now doing the very same thing. They went to these same schools via Affirmative Action fought for and paid by people who had all our interest at heart and that is exactly what it is; and the majority of "us" have allowed them to claim supremacy over the rest. They form an elitist clan-like group that don't look back or pull anyone up.<br /><br />Thanks for a very informative piece. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-77065941738682372092012-11-12T14:27:51.915-08:002012-11-12T14:27:51.915-08:00You're very welcome, Marion.
It's time to...You're very welcome, Marion.<br /><br />It's time to get rid of these turncoats. Four hundred years of self-hatred is more than enough.<br /><br />EricEric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-85926737741302763952012-11-12T14:23:52.800-08:002012-11-12T14:23:52.800-08:00Thanks for nailing these self-serving clowns. Sham...Thanks for nailing these self-serving clowns. Shameful.Marion Youngnoreply@blogger.com