Cornel West announces he's running for PRESIDENT

Activist and scholar Cornel West has announced he will run for president in 2024 as a third party candidate - promising to speak the 'truth' about issues including Ukraine, Wall Street and the Pentagon. 

The 70-year-old public intellectual posted a video launching his campaign running for nomination for the far-leftist People's Party.

'I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People's Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself - fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for all!' he said in the two-and-a-half-minute announcement video.

'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,' he said in the video.

Activist and scholar Cornel West has announced he will run for president in 2024 with the People's Party

West is a celebrity in intellectual circles as well as popular culture, and made appearances in Hollywood films such as The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. 

He is a radical Democrat and socialist who is often outspoken on left-wing political issues. 

During his academic career he has been a professor at Harvard, Yale, Princeton Dartmouth and the Union Theological Seminary in New York.

West, who has been married five times, previously called the U.S. a 'racist patriarchal' nation where white supremacy rules all aspects of everyday life. 

'White America,' he once wrote, 'has been historically weak-willed in ensuring racial justice and has continued to resist fully accepting the humanity of blacks.' 

He once called former President Barack Obama a friend, but then turned on him when he was in the White House. 

West claimed the first black U.S. president pandered to Wall Street and criticized his drone campaign. 

He also said he didn't do enough to end mass incarceration of African Americans. 

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