Cornel West announces he's running for president
"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,” West said.
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Scholar and activist Cornel West announced Monday he’s running as a presidential candidate for 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,” West said 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.”
West is known for his academic activism. He is the former professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
In the announcement video, West, 70, claims that he cares more about voters and their quality of life than other political parties.
“Neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon, about big tech,” West said. “Do we have what it takes? We shall see.”
West first left a Harvard position in 2002 amid a series of disputes with then-university president Lawrence Summers, joining Princeton University instead. In 2021, West again left a Harvard post over a tenure dispute, accusing the school of "intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of deep depths." He is currently the the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.
