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Name: J. Angelo Corlett

Title: Professor of Philosophy & Ethics

Institution: San Diego State University

Favorite Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, Marx

Favorite Professors: Joel Feinberg, Keith Lehrer, Burleigh Wilkins, Robert Kimball, Thomas Maloney, Frederick Shackleton

Favorite Thing to Do: Research & Teaching

Favorite Courses to Teach: Morality and the Law, Philosophy of Law, Racism and Social Justice

Favorite Quote: “The unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates)

Ethnic groups that have influenced him the most: Black folk in the U.S., Mexicans, American Indians

Some of Those Who Inspire Him: Socrates, Plato, Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, Muhammed Ali, Geronimo, Red Cloud, the Indians who killed Custer and his crew, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Justice Sonya Sotomayor, Venus and Serena Williams, Fidel Castro, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, his Mother

Favorite Colors: Black & gold

Favorite Team: L.A. Lakers

Favorite Comedians: Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Bernie Mac, George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Lewis Black, Lucille Ball, Whoopie Goldberg, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Dave Chappelle, George Carlin, John Candy, Martin Lawrence, Flip Wilson, Chris Rock, Eddie Griffin and Tommy Davidson

Favorite thing he wishes he could do but is now too damn old to do: Low Ridin’

Favorite City: San Francisco

Favorite Films: Zoot Suit, Stand and Deliver, McFarland, USA, Hurricane, Malcolm X, La Bamba, Glory Road, Gran Torino, Do the Right Thing, Rosewood, A Time to Kill, Mississippi Burning, Dark Girls, The Wiz, Purple Rain

Favorite TV Program: FRONTLINE

Favorite Performers: James Brown, Bob Dylan, WAR, Michael Jackson, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, B.B. King, Prince, Etta James, Rage Against the Machine, the O Jays, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Bessie Smith, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Ruth Brown, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett

If he won the Lottery he: would give millions of dollars to help the deserving poor (mostly pay off part of the U.S.’s reparations owed to American Indians & Blacks), and then get back to work

Favorite Foods: Tamales, Pollo con Mole, Collard Greens, Chicken & Waffles

Favorite Person to Hate: Andrew Jackson for what he and his supporters did to American Indians.

If black and American Indian lives do not matter, then no lives matter!

SDSU LINKS

Library

Homepage

PHILOSOPHICAL LINKS

American Philosophical Association

The Journal of Ethics

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