Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Glen Ford Answers Michael Eric Dyson On Obama; "Embracing Blackness" is Not the Problem
Bill Quigley
10 Jun 2009
🖨️ Print Article

If no video is visible above, click here. 

Contrary to what confused intellectuals like Dr. Michael Eric Dyson would have us believe, the president's unwillingness to "embrace blackness" is hardly the issue. In fact, Dyson gives the president an A for his handling of foreign and domestic affairs, as if "black affairs" are somehow in their own separate ghettoized world, apart and separate from war, peace, employment or who pays the bills.
 

Do you need and appreciate Black Agenda Report articles? Please click on the DONATE icon, and help us out, if you can.


More Stories


  •  BAR Book Forum: Crystal Eddins’ Book, “Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Crystal Eddins’ Book, “Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution”
    20 Jul 2022
    In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Crystal Eddins. Eddins is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte.…
  •  Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua
    Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua
    20 Jul 2022
    Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the U.S. But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated.
  • ESSAY: Negro Revolutionary Hero: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Cyril Briggs, 1929
    Editors, The Black Agenda Review
    ESSAY: Negro Revolutionary Hero: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Cyril Briggs, 1929
    20 Jul 2022
    In 1929, Black radical Cyril Briggs penned an essay on Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. For Briggs, both provided inspiration for the fight against the U.S. occupation of Haiti. We…
  •  BAR Book Forum: Steven W. Thrasher’s Book, “The Viral Underclass”
    Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
    BAR Book Forum: Steven W. Thrasher’s Book, “The Viral Underclass”
    20 Jul 2022
    This week’s featured author is Steven W. Thrasher. Thrasher holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world…
  • Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Renewal of the UN Mission to Haiti (BINUH)
    Black Alliance For Peace
    Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Renewal of the UN Mission to Haiti (BINUH)
    20 Jul 2022
    The ineffective and unpopular UN Mission to Haiti must end.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us