Posted on 04/22/2021 10:23:17 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson suggested Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that white people could help the Black Lives Matter movement by holding their racist relatives “to account” at family gatherings such as Thanksgiving.
Dyson said, “There are many things that white brothers and sisters can do. First of all, they can operate within their own sphere, within their own comfort zones. When you go home for Thanksgiving, and you know that there are some nasty viewpoints being expressed and you know that there are some vituperative expressions being made against Black people, you got to hold your family to account.
“Not nastily. Now eat your Thanksgiving first, get the turkey and your stuffing and dressing and your pumpkin pie. But after you consume the beverages and you have frivolity, speak to them in your own circle, not nastily but directly, also at your own place of business. In your own institutions of higher education, are you making sure people studying this as a measure of studying what happened in America as American history? What is the history of race?
“Have interactions with other people of color, with Black and Brown and Asian brothers and sisters. Talk to Indigenous people. You have to have a circle of people who can help you form opinions, direct your own study, satisfy curiosity and then start you on the road toward growth. Read books, read articles, interact with those who know what they’re talking about. These are some of the things that I think you can do to make a difference as a white person concerned about our culture and committed to racial justice.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Bingo !
Only “nasty viewpoints” and outright violence I’m seeing is from the race-obsessed communists that are burning down cities, destroying small businesses, oppressing whites, attacking old people, and murdering at random. Deal with your own evil and quit ascribing it onto others.
Agreed, bad idea.
If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences are pressured by empirical investigation of complex phenomena.
Michael Eric Dyson
Doesn’t sound too Marxist to me.
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced.
Michael Eric Dyson
Hold your own people to account. That is where the problem is, not here.
Can I come to your house for Thanksgiving? I'll bring a dish.
And condoms.
Wow...thanksgiving is a long wait for that.
But, I don’t have any black relatives to hold to account...so...
Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.
Michael Eric Dyson
But, but, I thought the sainted Dr. Fauci (piss be upon him) said that Thanksgiving gatherings shouldn’t happen?
My job is to explain stuff you don’t know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don’t know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I’m going to take what you already know and re-describe it.
Michael Eric Dyson
Make sure you take full advantage of their hospitality and pork down on their food, then insult them and vilify them. Gee, what could go wrong?
Is there going to be a Thanksgiving this year? Isn’t it a racist holiday anyway? Just asking. Hard to keep up.
Remember, Obama was pushing this nonsense with the “pajama boy” crap. This is just the latest re-hash (and pretty damned early, given the long, hot summer that lies ahead).
I don’t believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that’s the case, you ain’t self-made.
Michael Eric Dyson
Kamala and Maxine already have jobs...
Ahahahahahahaha! *breathes* Ahahahhaha!
Hokaaaay
Sorry “professor” you don’t have the balls to join my holiday table.
you got to hold your family to account.
What he meant to say was you HAVE to hold your family to account.
I hope he doesn’t teach English at that fancy school.
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