Public mental Cornel West broadcasts bid for presidency

Cornel West, the Ivy League scholar and outspoken progressive activist, introduced Monday that he’s working for president underneath the banner of the People’s Party.

“I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for president of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party,” Mr. West mentioned in a video announcement on Twitter. “I enter for the quest for truth. I enter for the quest of justice. And the presidency is just one vehicle we pursue that truth and justice.”

The 70-year-old former philosophy professor has arrange a web site the place he lays out his platform. Mr. West is campaigning on a wide range of far-reaching coverage objectives, together with assured well being care, abolishing all medical debt, closing all international army bases, disbanding NATO, forgiving all scholar debt and enacting time period limits in Congress.

I’m working for fact and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the perfect of itself – preventing to finish poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, well being care, training and residing wages for… pic.twitter.com/u3NYGUbG1S

— Cornel West (@CornelWest) June 5, 2023

“We’re not talking about hating anybody — we’re talking about loving, we’re talking about affirming, we’re talking about empowering those who have been pushed to the margins, because neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon, about Big Tech,” Mr. West mentioned in his marketing campaign video.

Mr. West is a former professor of the follow of public philosophy at Harvard University. He is at the moment serving as a professor emeritus at Princeton University.

Mr. West has additionally been a determine in common tradition, comparable to his cameos in “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions.”