{"id":19252,"date":"2013-01-24T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19252"},"modified":"2013-01-24T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T20:06:35","slug":"cornel-west-president-obama-doesnt-deserve-to-be-sworn-in-with-mlks-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19252","title":{"rendered":"Cornel West: President Obama Doesn\u2019t Deserve To Be Sworn In With MLK\u2019s Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Cornel West<\/strong> said that <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> didn\u2019t deserve to be sworn in for his second term as President of the United States with his hand on the bible of <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t play with <strong>Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong> and you don\u2019t play with his people, said <strong>West<\/strong>. \u201cBy his people, I mean people of good conscience, fundamentally good people committed to peace and truth and justice, especially the Black tradition that produced it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing a <strong>Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong> generated a brother of such high decency and dignity that you don\u2019t use his prophetic fire for a moment of presidential pageantry without understanding the challenge he represents to all of those in power regardless of what color they are.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, <strong>West<\/strong> said that, while he\u2019s happy that <strong>Mitt Romney<\/strong> didn\u2019t win the presidential election, our foreign policy is still imperialistic, politicians should be ashamed of spending billions on campaigns while people are living in poverty, and that <strong>President Obama<\/strong> is nothing but a \u201cRockefeller Republican in blackface.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Cornel West said that President Barack Obama didn\u2019t deserve to be sworn in for his second term as President of the United States with his hand on the bible of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. \u201cYou don\u2019t play with Martin Luther King, Jr. and you don\u2019t play with his people, said West. \u201cBy his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}