Michael Eric Dyson Quotes about Racism

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We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their less better off kin. Even elevated class status and superior financial standing cannot ward off the

We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their less better off kin. Even elevated class status and superior financial standing cannot ward off the effects and consequences of racism.

Michael Eric Dyson

Brother, Racism, Financial

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.

Michael Eric Dyson

Rapper, Racism, Hip Hop

Michael Eric Dyson (2008). “Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?.”, p.32, Basic Civitas Books

I think that what Donald Trump is doing, the way in which racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim belief and the like are being expressed through the campaign of Donald Trump, calls for, I think, a very vigorous and aggressive response to what he's saying.

Michael Eric Dyson

Xenophobia, Thinking, Racism

"A 'Moral Obligation' To Protest Trump, Says Michael Eric Dyson". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 19, 2016.