Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white… — 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
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to… — 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
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
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder. — 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
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — 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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