TAVIS SMILEY | Guest: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson | PBS

Dr. Dyson talks about Michael Jackson having to work harder as an African American as his music was not seen as an organic product of American culture. More conversations: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200906/20090630.html

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Entertainment

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• Michael Eric Dyson
• Michael Jackson
• Elvis Presley
• Death
• Legacy
• Passing
• King of Pop
• Tavis Smiley
• PBS

[truthchecknow]

Dr. Dyson is awesome. He is NOT bitter towards white folk...he just speaks the truth. He is not "putting the white man" down, the white man did that to himself through a terrible system of white supremacy. How much lower can he go? Prof. Dyson speaks the truth...and sometimes the truth hurts, especially to the guilty party.

[BeverlyHills2ndGen]

Man, where most people have to plan, write, and edit essays...Dr. Dyson simply speaks with the same proficiency.

[jc02151]

@truthchecknow Explain to me what the terrible system of white supremacy is?

[raza1st]

"As brilliant as Dr.Dyson is and has been, he is missing the point. What they should be talking about is not the who died but the why ??Jackson was one of many entertainers who have fallen victim to the corporate and secretive groups and their Machiavellian tactics." Any other talk about making this a race issue is nothing more that smoke and mirrors...

[IamNeutral]

@bashir6789 News Flash! Most of American has some white in them.

[IamNeutral]

Am I suppose to be impressed because I'm not.

[bashir6789]

@truthchecknow I'm pretty sure Dr. Dyson has some white in him.

[VeggieTrunks]

@SugarCoatedMorphine

Honestly, who the hell took this as an insult. Ugh.

[SugarCoatedMorphine]

@torr5962 I say this with love. HE did not degrade Elvis Presley at all.HE SIMPLE STATED FACTS. Music is one the few things in the mixture of the cement foundation of America. The complied mixture laying flatly on the ground is our HISTORY. Built in our HISTORY is this EMPIRE is great wealth,music and innovation that many of our peers are disillusioned to believe that it simply "poofed" into existence. We need to stop giving sugar coated solutions to complex problems.

[kimo9449]

i love mr dyson but he's also talked shit about michael jackson at times. but thank you for your words of respect mr dyson.

[SGTLima66]

@truthchecknow So its ok to gang rape white and hispanic women? Then blame whitey when the 28 blacks are arrested in Texas?

[torr5962]

@truthchecknow But at what cost is truth? Everyone knows the terrible legacy of this country. Dr. Dyson wouldnt have been allowed to exist 100 or even 50 years ago--his opinions would be ignored. But I dont see the point in degrading Elvis as just a cheap black copy who, although poor as dirt, had advantages because of beign white.. Cant we just enjoy Elvis and MJ and their talents? Where did Jackson's blackness hold him back? The white structure that Dyson points do helped make him huge.