Why Chef José Andrés Set Up a Kitchen in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
The chef’s massive effort to cook food for the island’s residents and relief workers was driven by an urgent sense of empathy.
by Hannah Giorgis
Oct 04, 2018
4 minutes
In his scholarship and in his personal philosophy, the professor Cornel West has arrived at a simple conclusion. “Justice is what love looks like in public,” he said during a 2011 speech at Howard University. “Just like tenderness is what love looks like in private.”
Often decontextualized and shared as a stand-alone sentiment, the first half of the quote has taken on a life of its own. It’s pithy and soothing, the kind of snappy feel-good slogan that lends itself perfectly to and Tumblr re-blogs. West’s speech preceded some of the more issue-driven rhetorical marriages of love and justice that have come to animate, ante-.
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