Yeah... I'm not taking anything seriously from a guy that decided to attack Cornel West and defend the Democratic Establishment and speak as a neoliberal. Screw that noise...

@mikejames6347

8 жыл бұрын

+Jagos DN! prides itself as always speaking truth to power, yet they give this loyal servant of power an entire segment. Michael Eric Dyson has been Obama's loyal attack dog since he took power.

@jamaicanification

8 жыл бұрын

+Jagos Some of his critiques of Dr West was spot on. Dr. West spent 6 years attacking Michael Eric Dyson personally and Dyson held his peace. That attack in the New Republic was a response to 6 years of attacks. Second......as much as I respect Dr. West he was being hypocritical and disingenuous in some of his attacks on Obama. He says the Black leadership sold it's soul to Obama who he calls a "war criminal" and yet he himself was a big supporter of Bill Clinton to the point of getting him to sign his book race matters and staying up late at night personally with Clinton when he had access to the White House. The same Bill Clinton who sent troops to Somalia, failed to stop Rwanda, increased mass incarceration, deregulated wall street, and maintained a sanctions regime on Iraq that contributed to a humanitarian crisis in which 500,000 children died of starvation. So evidently when a black man holds power and doesn't giving him access, Dr West is anti establishment. When the white man is in power and gives him access he's fine with the establishment. The height of hypocrisy right there and Dyson was right to call him out for the hypocrite that he was being. An I am saying this as someone who still has some respect for Dr. West

@Jyagos1

8 жыл бұрын

JANHOI MCCALLUM Dude... I read that New Republic article, watched as he contributed 3 more articles to that site along with read a few others to assess how it was. I'm not impressed. The same criticisms went against Tavis Smiley and yet those got ignored when they were critical of Clinton in being the "First Black President" when he destroyed Yugoslavia or hospitals in Brazil or whatnot. And I've given West hours to point out what he's said and why and he's delivered, especially with the response he gave Laura Flanders about what he saw with the Obama presidency. The issues of the drones creating terror, mass surveillance, New Jim Crow... Those are what he doesn't ignore and calls out. Yet now, Dyson says we aren't supposed to as a nod to Hillary? No, that noise is out the door along with the trash.

@Jyagos1

8 жыл бұрын

Gooberwalla He'll just exacerbate the problem and he's a media sensation. Go outside the two parties. Look up the Libertarian ticket if you're conservative and Jill Stein or Rocky Anderson if you're progressive. I may *like* Bernie, but I can't give my ticket to a corrupt institution, and the Democratic Party has lost its damn mind in my mind.

@imeakpan

8 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Watching this interview 4 years later, Dyson's words still ring hollow. As the 2020 election draws near, Obama's eight years in office seem more like 20 years ago.

@imeakpan

10 ай бұрын

An extension of the Clinton administration.

Obama...classiest sellout we ever had.

Michael Eric Dyson is the Bernard Madoff of American race relations. Thirty seconds into the interview he declares that opposition to the president has been racially pitched but not explicitly articulated. We can all be thankful that Dyson can decode the true motivations of conservative politicians completely independent of what they actually say. Dyson apparently has an extraordinary ability to discern what is in the hearts of the people who disagree with the president. We could likely do away with the jury system if we could train others to perform this miracle. Is there any legitimate opposition or disagreement with the president that is free of character defect according to Dyson? Beating this drum has likely given him very lucrative speaking fees and book advances.

Why is Democracy Now not questioning him more closely?

@Chittlin Kink. Seriously? IMO, MEN need to put men back in "charge of" our families by being responsible, present, nurturing, knowledgeable, leaders and role models. And I use the term "charge of" very guardedly because WOMEN of the family who have been the backbone of our families in lieu of men who DID NOT fulfill their responsibilities are the only reason things are not worse off than they are. Its a teamwork thing.

@SisterMotown

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Eubanks THANK YOU...83% of Black households in MI are headed by women because men have bailed! When men 'stay', we are a team and support each other.

Dyson has become a joke.

Black is a color it is not a nationality all human beings live within their nationality , Black is a title place up on the African peoples .

the problem in the black and every community is not police brutality. it's the government's failure to support fatherhood there's no ghettos anymore just single mother neighborhoods

@chancelorgrey2702

8 жыл бұрын

The Chitlin King Stop. Just stop.

@Thechittlinking

8 жыл бұрын

+Chancelor Grey stop what?

@Thechittlinking

8 жыл бұрын

+James Gray well they already are open your eyes

excellent discussion.

what?

I was born January 14,1972. The day I was born Richard Nixon was President. Today is Feb 4, 2016 and Barack Obama is President. So if I ask myself who has done the most for me personally Obama wins that hands down no contest. My question of these men from Nixon-Obama who is done more for YOU PERSONALLY?