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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Independent statesmanlike campaigner Cornel West was among pro-Palestinian protesters who marched connected the Democratic National Convention connected Monday, calling for the extremity to the genocide that demonstrators accidental was funded by Democrats.
The March connected the DNC is the archetypal of 2 events this week successful Chicago and was expected to draw tens of thousands of demonstrators, organizers say.
While the March connected the DNC is a conjugation of organizations representing assorted societal issues, a pro-Palestine committedness binds them all. More than 40,000 Palestinians person died successful Gaza since Israel launched an onslaught successful its warfare against Hamas connected October 7, the Associated Press has reported.
West, who is seeking to beryllium added to statesmanlike ballots arsenic an independent, says his stance connected the warfare successful Gaza separates him from Vice President Kamala Harris, who is expected to judge the Democrats’ information for president connected Thursday successful Chicago.
“She and I travel retired of a agelong contented of Black folks from some Jamaica and the United States with Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm X who ever made the transportation betwixt having a motivation authority, which means if you person immoderate motivation authority, you telephone a genocide into question,” West told reporters, including from NewsNation, connected Monday.
“If you person immoderate motivation authority, you talk to the issues of poorness and wealthiness inequality successful a substantiative mode and wide incarceration. So, successful that sense, I’m conscionable clashing with Sister Harris. I travel retired of a antithetic country of the Black (tradition).”
Asked connected Monday what helium needs to perceive from Harris erstwhile she speaks to Democrats connected Thursday nighttime astatine the United Center, West said Harris’ attack needs to spell beyond words.
“I don’t privation to perceive words,” helium said. “I privation to spot action.”
