“Use as a point of reference the tradition from which you come,” he said. It’s important to acknowledge and know your roots, he stressed. In any and all disciplines, he urged students to look at the history of the subject, who’s in control and where funding comes from. Universities are too beholden to the capitalist system, he declared. “Our time” is undeniably full of the blues, he lamented, and that means “wrestling with death, dread and despair.” The crises of our times include racism and threats to our democracy, as well as the existence of the planet, he noted. West holds the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
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