TV ONE: Stand -- Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West debate music

Who's a better speaker -- MLK or President Obama? Who's a better singer -- Mahalia Jackson Franklin or Alicia Keys? Watch two of the finest intellectuals get loose and debate in this clip from Tavis Smiley's Stand premiering May 24 at 9pm on TV One

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[stama9]

I'd love to be on that bus.

[b4baby]

i love Dyson and West. so funny.

[Renamandul]

@Satchel334 grammatics in the language. being obscene, obnoxiously loud and ignorant and arrogant, all things that were not displayed by these gentlemen. I think that lots of people seem to misconceive being loud in conversation as being gettoh. Its a very common misconception. I become loud in expressing my self around my friends sometime s, i wouldn't say I'm necessarily, loud ya know.

[Renamandul]

@Satchel334 LOL well I also am not a huge fan of bill O'Reilly. i could Agree with you on the obnoxious, nasty jerk part, but I'm not to acquainted at least yet with fox news to know all that other stuff about him. Um yes it is very funny how they can engage in laughter and express them selves in humorous ways, by the specific emphasis they might put on words and phrases when articulating there perspectives on music. But for me to say someone is acting gettoh, would be more like, a lack of

[Satchel334]

@Renamandul I'd guy Bill O'Reilly an obnoxious, mean, nasty jerk and hypocrite who preaches traditional values and then screws around on his wife and sexually harasses his female co-workers and then pays them off to keep a scandal from coming to light. But these two are acting a bit ghetto, it is funny, but a bit over the top and ghetto.

[Renamandul]

@GestapoBob how can you wish something like that on people. That they should die for speaking out. It's those same ideologies that have killed some of the most prominent figures in american history.

[Renamandul]

@GestapoBob at disproportional rates, when many of them are perfectly qualified. This sort of discrimination is derived form race. We can't evade that facts. I think Malcolm X said it best that "the guilt complex of the american white man is so profound that when you begin to analyze the conditions of the negro in this country, instead of the white man eliminating these problems he accuses his accusers of preaching hate" or in this case being racist. all i can say is that ima pray for you.

[Renamandul]

@GestapoBob These men are not racsist they are very distinguished African American scholars who speak about the true conditions of race in american society. They see race as the reality that it is. And to not talk about it would seize to solve the problem, how many times in history has not addressing a situation brought about a solution or closing to an issue? If you look at statistics today race is still an component in our society. We still have black/latino brothers and sisters unemployed

[Renamandul]

@Satchel334 Oh my god, just because they get a little loud in vocalizing there point docent mean there gettoh. There men men do that all the time when there amongst each other, especially best friends. And all of theses brothas are best friends. Will you call bill O'rielly gettoh for getting loud on his show?

[GestapoBob]

A bunch of afrocentrist, black panther loving, race baiting losers all in one vehicle. Oh how I wish they're tire blew out at 80 MPH or a head on collision to end the lives of all these racist losers! These idiots won't come out and say it, but they hate the white man, period! And the worst thing that could of happenend to the losers and other race baiters like Al Sharpton was for a (half) black man to become President of the U.S. God forbid if their is no longer or very little racism.

[Satchel334]

Funny but kind of sad to see two intellectuals turn ghetto.

[TheL2hang]

which zoo is that?