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on issues of race. Like Professor West, I too make my living at elite, predominately white institutions. For the past five years we were on the same payroll at Princeton. Like Professor West I supplement my income by giving lectures about race,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], politics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and history. Like West I hope to influence policy, inspire individuals, and intervene in public conversations about race. My criticism of West is his seeming unwillingness to acknowledge how our structural positions within the academy and in public intellectual life can be just as compromising to our position vis-à-vis black communities as is President Obama's. As tenured professors Cornel West and I are not meaningfully accountable, no matter what our love,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], commitment, or self-delusions tell us. President Obama,http://www.tiluband.com, as an elected official, can, in fact,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], be voted out of his job. We can't. Adam Serwer draws from his own life, to point out the hilarity of having "one group of morons question your citizenship while others question your blackness,"Growing
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