Michael Eric Dyson on Democracy Now! About Marable's Biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

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After two decades of work, Dr. Manning Marable completed a new biography, "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention." Dr. Marable used material for his book that had been recently made available, thus providing a new insight into the famed civil rights leader. His biography, however, has also refueled the debate on many controversial aspects of Malcolm X's life and interpretation of his politics and legacy. To discuss Dr. Marable's biography, Democracy Now! speaks with Michael Eric Dyson. Dyson is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University and author of numerous books including, "Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X." Dyson was one of three guests in a Democracy Now! roundtable discussion, including Amiri Baraka, an acclaimed poet, playwright, music historian and activist based in Newark, New Jersey. Also joining the discussion is Herb Boyd a Harlem-based activist, teacher and author who edits the online publication, The Black World Today.

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[oRuTRa45]

Michael Eric Dyson loves to hear himself talk.

[MsJustanotherhuman]

Michael sometimes still acts like a frat boy and needs to just give a rest!

[TheFlutevisions]

Fuck You Mike!!!

[Renault1ful]

Michael Eric Dyson is full of it, full of education,articulation,and a voice for people who can't speak about situations that go on in the world we live in today.

[Romello4u]

Dyson is full of it!

[walk4trot2canter3]

@oRuTRa45 Me, too!  Thank goodness I've got You Tube to listen to him over and over and over again!

[Sleepyfist]

@UrbanFilmworx Then round three, the bonus round (and this is what killed it) Dyson tried to drop some old "I kwotes fwum bwack foke and yous kwote'n all dem dead whyte peepus" jive, Amiri asked him, "Don't you teach at a university full of dead white men?" Dyson's little playground insult goes straight out the window like karate in a street fight. I died laugh'n.

Amiri 3

PIMP Minister E. Dice 0

Come on Urban, the P.I.M.P Minister couldn't rock it if he were Dwayne Johnson.

[Sleepyfist]

@UrbanFilmworx Round two. Amiri Baraka asked Dyson if he read the book. This is the point were the video cuts off. But in the audio you can hear Dyson doing some hambone-jig-shuffle on the other end. Baraka bust out laugh'n. So Dyson enters the convo with Baraka without finishing the book. Classic.

Amiri 2

PIMP Minister E. Dice 0

[Sleepyfist]

@UrbanFilmworx Listen to the full audio in the archives. Dyson calls himself a P.I.M.P (Public Intellectual with Moral Principles). I suppose unverified conjecture (slander) are justifiable components of the minister's "moral principles."

First, after PIMP Minister E. Dice "dead white men" comment, Amiri shot back pointing out that the Democratic Socialists (which Manning Marable was a part of) quoted dead white men too. Dyson act like he ain't hear that. I did.

Amiri 1

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