Over at The Believer, Riayn Fergins chats with Cornel West:
Anytime you have a deep commitment to loving your neighbor, you hate injustice. When you love folks, you can’t stand the fact they’re being treated unfairly… It’s not sadomasochistic. You’re not liking them, you’re loving them because you can’t hate folks, no matter what color they are, but you hate the injustice. Hate their deeds, but you don’t have to hate them. You can never trump somebody’s possibility. People can change. If you hate someone so intensely, you freeze them for that moment. They could actually undergo a transformation and become lovable people.
The pair also riff on social responsibility, the lack thereof, and how one makes it off of the couch to support a cause.
