Obama Living Up to Post-Racial Promise? - Michael Eric Dyson

[TheGoalSetter]

It means to not define yourself by a race.

Racial pride is the foundation of all racism.

Replace the ridiculous notion of race and you rid our world of racism.

[MandisaAzalee]

i love him!!!!!!!!!!!

[firefox8192]

Dr. Dyson rules. and owns the competition.

[DrCruel]

Certainly he is an eloquent champion of the liberal race industry. I must say, his "game" is certainly much more polished than that of, say, someone like Al Sharpton or Jeremiah Wright.

[idPHUCK]

Look ..Lets stop nit-picking. Everybody got a story an everyone got thier own view point. Lets look at the Big Picture..Everybody should be for INTERGRATION but No one should be for ASSIMULATION. We can be together but I don't have to be like you an you don't have to be like me but we can coexist with one word:RESPECT

[pabankhead1]

**SAY IT LOUD IM BLACK AND PROUD***

Some whites can't handle DIVERSITY because they come from a Sick ass culture of Racist sack of Shit~!!!

We try to forgive them just to have them STAB us in the Back over and over again trying to steal something precious and dear and to some Degree are successful at Destroying us by Locking us up and Tearing us Down so that they can look good!!!! Narcissistic Childmolesting, Atheist believers, Non-moralistic Arrogant Assholes!!! Are what they are!!!

[TheIanAlmond]

There are blacks in the United States who oppose or (at the VERY least) remain ambivalent towards the term "diversity" and what that means for African-American culture & it's people in the present & future.

You are focusing on just the negative and discounting all the positive. You need counseling AND an education.

[pabankhead1]

ThelanAlmond

There are blacks who are not in powerful postions to make changes!! U mean there are "Whites" who don't want "Diversity" and that means culture it's people present & future!! U mean U need counseling and education...

[TheIanAlmond]

You need to work on you're writing and reasoning skills, little boy.

After you got those two bases covered, THEN you can get back to me.

[pabankhead1]

ThelanAlmond

U want to argue....Get lost!! Mind your own business!! When those bases are covered then U should come back!

Jugdemental MORON!! look into the mirror and start there!! Then maybe U can criticize someone else!! Maybe!

[TheIanAlmond]

Im sorry- and please forgive me if I am mistaken- but was THAT supposed to be an insult?

lollllllll

[pabankhead1]

ThelanAlmond

Why are U here!! Im sorry that U are a "Narcissistic" personality!! Get a clue.....Not on this site!!! Not today!! lolhahahahahlololol!! Yeah Right!!

[TheIanAlmond]

Hang it up, "brotha"- you can't hang with caucasians.

[pabankhead1]

ThelanAlmond

What "MILK" U are the one that's want to see what AFRICANS are doing!!! U on the wrong station u are one who needs to hang up!!! U want to be BLACK!! Blackness is not for U!! MILK is for U!! Get over yourself!! U are only a legend in your own mind!! The Facts proves something a lot different!! JEALOUS FUCKER!! U will still be WHITE!! yuck!!!

[057tallica]

Turn on the news. Its not the Whites that are destroying you. I know its a lot easier to blame someone else for the way your life is, but at some point TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! I like how you call whites racist, but of course your not. Good thing your not arrogant

[pabankhead1]

057

Do U know who Sarah Vaghn is? No I don't think sooooo........ So what are U talking about? It interesting how "Whites" want to tell BLACKS how they should feel!!

Please give me a Break!! No Im not Arrogant at all.....Yeah but where do U suppose the HISTORY of Racism comes from?? So really who should take RESPONSIBILITY for this mess.......LIAR!!

It's amazing how some can switch the TRUTH and make it sound REAL!! Yeah right!! If U RESPECT nothing then U get nothing think about that.

[057tallica]

I think thats why you have NOTHING. Its not the whites fault your a racist piece of shit.Maybe you need to take a long look in the mirror and ask yourself "Do I really want to go through my whole life filled with hate?' Besides, Why is bankhead such a shitty place? Is it the Whites or the Blacks? ( If you have even been to bankhead) HYPOCRITE !!!!!!

[pabankhead1]

057

It's NONE OF YOUR FUCKIN BUSINESS!! Bitch!! Naw Im not that BANKHEAD, but it's probably FAMILY!! U Ignorant piece of shit!!!!

U fuckin BIGOT!! Fuck U and don't ever contact me asking me shit about shit!!! U fuckers make me sick!! It's not about me being BLACK U asswipe!! It's about U nosey fucker who can't seem to MIND YOUR OWN FUCKIN BUSINESS!! U don't see BLACKS all in your Business wanting to know shit about U fuckers!! So fuck U and get life and leave me alone!!

LOSER!!!

[057tallica]

HAHAHAHA I hit a nerve. youve never even been to bankhead. Im surprised you own a computer fuck face. You keep talking shit about whites, but guess what? I'M NOT EVEN WHITE. Try again. I'm sure you dont only hate whites. They are just at the top of of your hate chart

[pabankhead1]

057

No ignorant ass...I have never been to BANKHEAD U jealous fucker! Why are u worried about me having a Computer? That's "exactly" what Im speaking about U JEALOUS pieces of shit! Worry about your own Computer not mines! U bitch!

I hate no one U stupid fuck! I hate that NARCISSISTIC fucker who think It's always about them and that's fucker like U!! U DISRESPECTFUL no-religious talking FOOL! Try picking up a book or a bible sometime to check the HISTORY of the ignorant & the illiterate.

[opacid]

blah blah blah. More crap, how bout we be post diverisity?! You're an American or you're not! Always some black dude bitching about something while a white man is hung from a pole. Honestly, I've been attacked by both sides but only physically by blacks. Tell u what, I got more scars than spooks can count cause they've gotten retarded listening to hip-hop. My dago ass can kick any spook or cracker ass I ever met. And everyone I kicked deserved it.

[truthchecknow]

And as far as "speaking to the black man", black men need to take a stand and speak for themselves. W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Dr. King, Malcolm X and many many others have been "speaking" to black men for centuries. Black men need to speak for themselves and be held individually accountable for their positions in society. Black men have been "spoken" to...they're just not listening.

[truthchecknow]

Prof. Dyson is absolutely brilliant. He is a "race" man, but not a RACIST. He pretty much says what many are afraid to say. As far as solutions...read some of his books and you will see that he offers many solutions to the plight of African Americans.

[bennykoy]

@truthchecknow I'm not the least bit interested in the plight of blacks, but thanks anyway.

[borninOlatheKS]

The new racism is blacks against whites. Whites now join in comfort of having blacks in their surroundings. BUT, watch the reaction of a black man when a white man is caught staring at him. The purpose of staring at a black man these days is caused by interest alone but not hate. I'm sure at the beginning when man started his journey on earth we were all the same color but maybe racism began in the beginning cause of a different shade of skin OUCH

[artformeandyou]

You can't be 'post-racist' until your 'post-racial'. Read a bit more. If one believes in a divide, they will fight for that divide.

[Robbie2188]

I really don't like listening to this man. He just really disappoints me almost every time. He's clearly very smart but he never actually conveys anything. He just talks continuously, seemingly thinking that it's about the way he says things and not what he says. He could actually make a point or he could just speak like he's a wannabe Dr. King or other special orator. Listening to him is like watching a Michael Bay film. If you like explosions and hot women, hes your guy.

[youngvito262]

i agree to an extent. everything he says is pretty much true although i noticed he doesnt have many SOLUTIONS. that is part of the reason why he is angry. nobody knows how to "fix" the problem. whites ignore it and blacks over-exaggerate(basically) to me it sounds like complaining but i wish he would speak directly to black men about what we can do to change our situation.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

as a man that starddles the black white divide every day by nature of my birth, I can't stand to listen to this man pontificate like he knows shit. Neither whites nor blacks fit into any mould, generalizations about either will always be incorrect. Its about the individual my youth, respect the individual, treat he or she with respect, until their behaviour leads you to do otherwise.

Now that is some knowledge, nyam it up lickle man.

[kaje01]

I think anyone who dishes out bigotry deserves any that comes their way.  If a black man shows bigotry against gays, then he deserves any bigotry that people show him.

So, vote yes on things like prop 8 just don't expect anyone to take you seriously when you play the race card.

[dzire99]

Michael Eric Dyson is one of the most intellectual speakers I have ever heard; and he mixes it with a style and charisma that is unique and uncanny. He can relate to the rappers and the street level type or he can sit down and kick it with his very own contemporaries such as Cornel West and Tavis Smiley. He can be comedic and he can be downright serious. Very interesting and deep brother for whom I have much respect!

[youngvito262]

i like and respect him too but i think he is somewhat obsessed with racism.

[Blackliam]

This guy looks extremely caucasian

[whoo689]

The liberal utopia of eliminating 100% of racism won't happen. I don't think we can get much better than we are today as a culture when it comes to race. I mean, we've come a long way since the beginning of the civil rights movement. Even blacks have become accepted enough and free enough in this country that several of them, esp. in California with Prop 8, feel empowered enough to discriminate against gays.

[whoo689]

Michael Eric Dyson was invited to my campus fall 07 as a speaker, and I didn't think much of it. I looked him up, and what I saw didn't impress me. Besides, he's a sociologist! Sociology is bullshit. It's the REAL dismal science. Besides, most of what sociology teaches is either common sense or all these wacky theories of how America's secretly a racist or sexist nation, despite all we've done the past 3 or 4 decades bending over backwards to help minorities. It's not perfect, but come on.

[whoo689]

"Post-racist" sounds great, but I don't think it'll ever happen. Unless we all mix so much in the past several hundred years that we become one race, there'll still be haters. That's life. And I electing one black president is gonna solve it. After all, he's the leader of the GOVERNMENT. He's not society's leader or a cultural leader. Post-racial, as a phrase, makes no sense. As long as America has people of all kinds of ethnicites, we'll always be divided to some extent.

[Vaporifix]

I can't stand this race hustler. Always the eternal victim..boohoo.

[qpwnsall]

word

[smsthalia]

If you watch his whole lecture, you will love it.

[coRnflEks]

I'll second that, for sure.

[Sardonac]

This guy's hilarious.

[DavidWillB]

"Race" doesn't actually mean anything.

It is an artificial categorization which causes opposition and difference through meaningless distinctions.

I think putting empty, meaningless, divisive ideas behind us is what that post racial comment was about.

Species means something. We are human. Why don't we dwell on that for a while?

As to ethnicity, that is a term so broad as to be almost useless. It can mean various things such as culture, genetics, national, state or city origin or religion.

[batongbakalpare]

@DavidWillB Yes--"Race" as a concept of classification (and eventually the perception of racial hierarchies) was entirely a manmade, white construct.

However, as "Race" began to take social manifestations, its implications were made real. This is to say, the concept of "race" was born from the arbitrary perceptions by whites, but it took on social realities--such as the slavery of Blacks and the extermination of Native Americans--as a result of its acceptance. This is the genesis of racism .

[batongbakalpare]

@DavidWillB As to "ethnicity," ethnicity is historically impacted by cultural (e.g. religion) and secular (e.g. the creation of national borders and political nation-states) factors, but it is not defined by them. The term "ethnicity" is far less broad than the parameters you posit.

Yes, we are all human. But to attempt now to somehow erase the historical truths of racism or to fallaciously pretend as though race is no longer relevant is to perpetuate white supremacist ideologies.

[batongbakalpare]

@DavidWillB We cannot "default" to notions of "racelessness", because that is to default to narratives and mandates dominated by whites, it is to ignore the disparities in freedom (economic, educational, social, cultural, and so on) among whites and people of color, it is to absolve the structures and participants of privilege of their responsibilities, and it is to allow previous egregious violations of justice and humanity to resurface.