Dr. Michael Eric Dyson Drops Some Knowledge, and Raps Too
Black/African American, hip hop, social commentary, video
A clip of Dr. Michael Eric Dyson speaking at The University of North Carolina — Greensboro last Wednesday. Some of my favorite phrases he dropped:
Shrinking spaces of recreation have created conditions of calamity (In reference to young people).
Ebonicized articulation (I’m an articulate ebonics speaker!).
Blackness ain’t just one thang!
[It is unfair to express] our perception of their pathology in public without offering a forum with which poor black people can express themselves (Critiquing Bill Cosby’s infamous comments).
If I write something you don’t like, you have an obligation to holla back at me.
dara montaque @ March 5, 2008