Should-Read: Jelani Cobb: @jelani9 on Twitter: "I was fra...

Should-Read: Jelani Cobb: @jelani9 on Twitter: "I was frankly embarrassed by @CornelWest���s threadbare commentary...

...It���s one thing to challenge and interrogate. Quite another to cloak petty rivalry as disinterested analysis. Neoliberal?... This points to a broader concern I might as well air. One of the more fascinating things I���ve observed as @tanehisicoates has become more prominent is the unifying contempt of a striking array of black intellectuals.... People as intellectually diverse as John McWhorter and Glenn Loury are mad at the same dude as @CornelWest and Adolph Reed. I can���t tell you how many times black academics have tried to turn me against my friend on the low. One who sniffed indignantly to me ���He hasn���t written anything that���s not on my syllabus.��� Then you should���ve sent your syllabus to @TheAtlantic. But underlying all this is another dynamic. Plain classical elitism.... Straight up: many people hate the fact that the person being hailed as possibly the sharpest black intellectual writing about race is an HBCU dropout. They prefer their self-made intellectuals to be of the deceased variety

Frankly I preferred not to say any of this. @tanehisicoates is a grown man. He can fight his own battles. But it���s a little tiresome to see and hear the hypocritical bullshit of academics who would prefer the community not be defended if doing so means accolades for someone else...