Academic and activist Dr. Cornel West tells David Letterman that President Obama may be a “black face in [a] high place” but doesn’t have the “vocal integrity” to stand up for what’s right and “deliver justice.” And it’s not just Obama who’s guilty, according to West, but people of all races unwilling to fight inequality in the United States — a rampant and insidious inequality that the professor describes as a “moral abomination.”

—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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