While the responses for Barack Obama’s presidential nomination acceptance speech have been overwhelmingly positive from the Hip Hop community, not all are sharing the genre’s views of the historic speech.
In the hours following Obama’s address at Denver’s Invesco Field, Tavis Smiley sat down with Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Julianne Malveaux to get their response.
Both were less than flattered.
Smiley opened by asking Malveaux if Obama lived up to the hype and “did he deliver” to which she replied “not at all.”
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The Bennett College president—who went on to praise the speeches given by Bill and Hillary Clinton—chastised Obama for not mentioning Dr. Martin Luther King by name, the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina and other issues.
“That he could not mention the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That Dr, King was reduced to some preacher from Georgia was just a disappointment,” she said.
West, while critical, took a more tactful approach in his response, saluting Obama and the Democratic Party, saying he would work to get Obama elected to the White House.
Check out the discussion here
