"I Have a Dream" Revisited - Michael Eric Dyson

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/01/Michael_Eric_Dyson_No_Dreams_Deferred

Author and commentator Michael Eric Dyson reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Dyson lists specific grievances with racial injustice addressed by the speech.

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Michael Eric Dyson addresses the Georgetown community in a lecture titled, "No Dreams Deferred?" Professor Dyson is an outspoken scholar who exploded on to the national scene in a public dispute with Bill Cosby over poverty and the black underclass - Georgetown University

Michael Eric Dyson, named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, is the author of sixteen books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

His most recent book is April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America.

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[danielcooper1000]

We can never find justice at the hands of corrupt judges. (See YouTube videos) Judge to Judge on Illegal Payments to Judges / Evil Triangle of Court Corruption / Richard Fine / Dr Shirley Moore /SBX 211. The fight to end this title wave of corruption in our country must start with the corrupt judges. We can not bring evidence of corruption to corrupt judges. Los Angeles Superior Court judges are illegally and unconstitutionally taking 50,000.00 each for a total of 23 million per year.

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"Barack Obamas ascent to the presidency doesnt destroy black poverty, radical inequality, social injustice, the need to pay attention to all of those issues that he should be held accountable for once he ascends to the presidency."

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"On the other hand, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and other political critics and activists are not going to be out of job when Barack Obama becomes president. I think theres an illusory notion that perhaps Mr. Ford might want to at least pay more strict attention to, and that is the fact that theres a bifocal vision going on here.

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"I obviously share, as a person whos written greatly and a great deal about race, that certainly we are not in a promised land by any measure, but I think what Barack Obama is pointing to is the fact that, as a person who can carry the water for not only African American people, but for the American population, the notion that a black man can be president then has to be put squarely in front of the American population, at least on the table.

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Source: Amy Goodman, Democracy Nov, 9.1.2008:

Michael: "Well, I think that theres no question that the politics of race, when it comes to Barack Obama, are complicated. There is the repudiation of a certain narrow conception of skin nationalism when it comes to race, and yet if you look at audacity of hope, where Barack Obama discusses the issue of race, its a much more nuanced and complex comprehension of the racial factors that remain.

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It is very important for me to deliver my message to students and faculty at this great institution of American society because it is the ideas and thoughts of these young people that are going to shape society in the future."

Michael Eric Dyson

[CharlieBBoy12345]

this guy has the metre and intonation of Saul Williams.

[trinitymike]

Actually, he plagiarised the 2nd half from Archibald Cafrey jr.