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Tavis Smiley rails against the ‘blinders of greed’: Poverty a societal crisis

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With reports of poverty reaching its highest level since 1965, CBS News contributor Tavis Smiley on Sunday compared the growing wealth inequality to slavery in the United States. “Throughout American history there have been proud moments of revolution that forced the elite to remove their blinders of greed, tyranny and…

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Colbert accuses Tavis Smiley and Cornel West of class warfare

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Thursday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report” featured guests Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, who were promoting their book, The Rich and the Rest of Us. Conservative firebrand Colbert took exception right away with the title of the book, accusing the authors of stoking the fires of class warfare. West…

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Cornel West: Herman Cain ‘needs to get off the symbolic crack pipe’

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Princeton University professor Cornel West thinks Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is wrong to suggest that racism no longer matters in this country. Cain had told CNN’s Candy Crowley Sunday that some simply used racism as an excuse when they failed to achieve their goals. “I have seen blacks in…

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