Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America
Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. › August 10, 2009
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Last year, Michael Eric Dyson wrote "Is [Bill Cosby] Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?" a book in which the author launched into a vicious personal attack on Cosby rather than debate the merits of the comedian's controversial remarks about the dire state of black America. In my review of that trashy tome entitled "Has Michael Eric Dyson Lost His Mind?" I pointed out that his woeful work left the issue essentially unaddressed. I subsequently even went so far as to request an interview with Professor Dyson on the same subject several times, but apparently he's been too busy with more important matters such as making cameo appearances in brainless blaxsploitation flicks like Waist Deep to concern himself with the cultural debate he claims to have addressed and dispensed with.
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Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America
Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America
Review by Kam WilliamsThe latest twist in the history of stereotyping is that the black middle and upper classes are no...See the full content of this document
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