"Hip Hops Apologist ...Dr. Michael Eric Dyson"

Michael Eric Dyson, the acclaimed author and noted thesaurus abuser “hip-hop intellectual,” moved on to Georgetown University Tuesday to teach religion, culture, and society, Georgetown University said in a statement.

“I am not leaving the University of Pennsylvania as much as I am going to Georgetown,” said Dyson during a phone interview yesterday. Dyson was in New Orleans getting ready to speak at the Essence Musical Festival, a multiday event that attracts rappers and politicians alike.

Dyson has become a superstar academic within hip-hop circles and the pop-culture arena. Most hipsters know his name from his 2001 book about rap artist and actor Tupac Shakur, “Holler If You Hear Me,” which thrust Dyson into the public eye.

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~Michael Dyson may be a great preacher but as a professor he's more of a hip-hop apologist than a true academic. 95% of hip-hop (so is most popular culture) is crap and for Michael Dyson to try and venerate this misogynistic, homophobic, and anti-intellectual genre only demonstrates his shallowness as an academic.

I agree that the Democrats need more backbone but most of the Democrats policies don't lend themselves to the "fire and brimstone" of the Republicans. Abortion, and role of religion in public life are just two areas where Democrats and Republicans disagree, and while they deferrer the Democrats arguments are not the polar opposite of the Republicans (i.e. Democrats will not force women to have abortions or outlaw religion). These differences from the Republicans can explain some of the "milk toast, soggy kneed and jelly spined" nature of the Democrats. You have to be firm when denying something from an individual or group, but when offering a choice being dogmatic is silly to say the least.

Just focusing on the "low-rider pants and tattoos" misses Bill Cosby point: just because you are poor doesn’t mean you have rob and kill each other. I find it sad that Michael Dyson doesn’t preach more about improving educational opportunities for Blacks rather than attacking Bill Cosby because he says Black parents should be ashamed of the way their children behave. Yes, Whites and others have problems but Bill Cosby is addressing African Americans because our situation is grimmer than other groups.