Dr. Cornel West exposes the moral rot behind a massive taxpayer-funded settlement.

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Well, first I just want to salute you, sister Sarah. First time I get a chance to meet you. High quality journalist just like you and Abby. It's all right.

[00:00:07]High quality. It's always a blessing.

[00:00:09]But I just wanted to hear my dear brother Scott try to rationalize this in some way and I see you you getting checkmated here because there's just no ground for justification of this unless you open the gate and you got trillions of dollars for ex-slaves and ex-Jim Crow people. You got 6,000 of the the Innocence Project just at Harvard Law School of people who have been incarcerated. You got 2.2 of mass incarceration. I've been blessed to teach in prisons for 49 years. Now, tomorrow is Malcolm X's birthday. He's 101.

[00:00:44]What is it about Malcolm? Well, what we're talking about is just This is just the peak of an iceberg. When you're living in an empire that is unraveling because the hatred and the greed is overwhelming.

[00:00:58]And so there's no sincerity, there's no integrity, there's no character. So people will justify anything in the name of power and might as opposed to integrity and what is right.