This paper specify the life of Cornel West, and the book that he wrote on Race Matters.

Cornel West: Race matters Cornel is a part, a very small part, of a great and grand tradition. A tradition of struggle, a struggle for decency and dignity. A struggle for freedom and democracy. And he decided a long time ago, back in Sacramento, California where he grew up, that he wanted to live and die as part of this tradition of struggle. Those who were willing to give so much and love so deeply …

…white brothers and sisters who are concerned with what's going to happen to them, but there's something else that's called black pain and black suffering that also requires some limelight. And addressing black pain and suffering from a vantage point of the black nationalist tradition is one that says America just does not have the capacity to ever create a multi-racial democracy in which the masses of black people are treated equally as full-fledged citizens.