Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The failure to see color only benefits white America. A world without color is a world without racial debt.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Beloved, there is something black folk fear, whether you can see it or not, whether some of us black folk will say… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist:… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The emphasis on personal responsibility is something we've had in black America from the get-go. Every major leader and intellectual worth her… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“When black folk say “Black Lives Matter,” they are in search of simple recognition. That they are decent human beings, that they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King, Jr., is the most quoted black man on the planet. His words are like scripture to you and, yes,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“So what are you supposed to do? My friends, what I need you to do—just for starters—is not act. Not yet. Not… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“You’ve been handed a history where you got most of the land, made most of the money, got most of the presumptions… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“There is a big difference between the act of owning up to your part in perpetuating white privilege and the notion that… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Beloved, to be white is to know that you have at your own hand, or by extension, through institutionalized means, the power… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Beloved, white racial grief erupts when you fear losing your dominance. You get mighty angry at our demand that you live up… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Obama had always to field demands from some blacks to be blacker, and the wish of many whites to whitewash the story… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won’t make a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won’t make a difference, we… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“O! save us, we pray thee, thou God of Heaven and of earth, from the devouring hands of the white Christians!!! . . .… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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