Point Loma Writers: An Evening with Michael Eric Dyson

Author, commentator and Georgetown University sociologist shares his candid and complex views of Obama, racial amnesia, the poetry of hip hop, Bill Cosby, and Oprah Winfrey. He also describes his own life of growing up poor in Detroit in this riveting interview with journalist Dean Nelson, host of the 2010 Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: Writer's Symposium By The Sea [4/2010] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 18125]

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• Michael Eric Dyson
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[tnadvocate411]

Great knowledge

[KinglyNumbaOne]

@danL1011 Any of her books. She is a real scholar!

[ricardofuego]

Great video! Fuck white supremacists and ventriloquists!

[danL1011]

@yendorification [Like i'll believe you ...about your fictional "degrees".]

So much for putting money on it. Anyway, over time, I think less and less of my Ivy League pedigree b/c of people like Dyson (Princeton). He even "taught" for 2 years at my alma mater, Brown Univ. At least Brown got rid of him quickly.

Read T. Sowell's "Affirmative Action Around the World"; might give you a new perspective on things. And yes, white women were primary beneficiaries of AA. No need for name calling.

[yendorification]

LOL. Like i'll believe you when you talk about your fictional "degrees". As for Affirmative Action, if you werent a complete idiot, you would know that it benefits primarily white women (look it up ), and targets not only minorities but also ppl from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and the physically handicapped. Given the historical inequalities that resulted from slavery, and jim crow, affirmative action tries to give ppl who were not rich, white, males an opportunity to catch up.

[danL1011]

@yendorification [...denigrate the academic achievements of others]

Actually, just Dyson.

[the study of Hip Hop ...is equally valid as a subject of study in higher education]

Did you type that with a straight face? Read T. Sowell's book on Affirmative Action. It talks about under-qualified minorities that gravitate toward easy courses like these.

[and i'd put money on this]

How much you got? B.S. from an Ivy League school, MBA from a top 5 B-school. Not that it matters.

Dyson's a joke.

[yendorification]

@danL1011 I love how you denigrate the academic achievements of others while (and i'd put money on this) you probably havent even graduated from highschool yet, if you have did not attend university, and if you did attend university have no accolades to show for it. Theology is as viable a subject as any other in school, and the study of Hip Hop (a subculture that now dominates pop culture among young ppl all over the world) is equally valid as a subject of study in higher education

[danL1011]

@yendorification [a Ph.D. in Theology ...one of the most vocal critics...]

A pseudo-intellectual is usually not a dummy. Doesn't take much to be a hatemonger. Top American universities are filled w/ Ph.D. pseudo-intellectuals. Dyson is the poster child for everything wrong with affirmative action and political correctness. Ph.D. in Religion? Courses on gangsta rap? Give me a break. Check out Sowell and Williams for real scholars.

btw, nice video on the 'Duke'.

[liberatedvialove]

Here's a way to think about it. Maybe movies dsn't have the effect that music does because its all about role play and acting, maybe music is more relatable bcuz its comes from a real place, sung by a real person, the singer isnt acting a role per say. just a thought. maybe music becomes part of our lives more than movies ever cud. we ride the bus and listen to music, in the shower we play music it bcomes infused in away with our everyday lifestyle as opposed to sitting down & watching a movie.

[yendorification]

@danL1011 A pseudo-intellectual with a Ph.D. in Theology from a renowned university who came from a dirt poor background and rose to become one of the most vocal critics of America's shortcomings. Yeah, a real dummy