Political Correctness – Munk Debates

Michael Eric Dyson

"Youre telling me Im being sensitive, and students looking for safe spaces that theyre being hypersensitive. If youre white, this country is one giant safe space."

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Michael Eric Dyson

"Youre telling me Im being sensitive, and students looking for safe spaces that theyre being hypersensitive. If youre white, this country is one giant safe space."

Michael Eric Dyson is a Georgetown University sociology professor, aNew York Timescontributing opinion writerand a contributing editor ofThe New Republic.

Dyson came fromhumble roots in Detroit, where he was a welfare father, a church pastor and a factory worker. Hestartedcollegeat21and eventuallycompleted his doctorate in religion at Princeton University, studying Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

He has authored 21 books, taught at elite universities, and wonprestigious honors thatincludean American Book Award and two NAACP Image Awards.Ebonymagazine cited him as one of the 100 most influential African Americans, and as one of the 150 most powerfulBlacks in the nation.

Dysons1994 bookMaking Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X, was named one of the most important African American books of the 20th centuryand hisNew York TimesbestsellerThe Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, has been described asan interpretive miracle andwas a finalist for the 2016KirkusPrize.

Dyson has appeared on everymajor television and radio show in theUnited States,includingThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,Real Time with Bill Maher andNPRs All Things Considered.

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