Obama just a puppet of the Wall Street oligarchs

Obama a puppet of the Wall Street oligarchs? So says the headlines of Cornel West's remarks. it seems that event he so called 'intellectual blacks' are upset with the president. He hasn't been black enough or lived up to the expectations of his race apparently.

West's remarks are scathing in tone and something that might have been expected if not anticipated from the likes of Jeremiah Wright and others. After all, it was they who were thrown under the bus once their usefulness was lost.

Apparently now? It's Barry's turn under the black transit system.

Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and leading black intellectual, is harshly criticizing President Obama, a candidate he once supported but now calls “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”

West, a former Harvard University professor, said during an interview with the website Truthdig posted yesterday that the president has not been true to his race.

“I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men,” West said. “It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white…When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening.”

The White House did not have an immediate comment. West did not respond to messages left at his office.