Vanderbilt African American Studies professor Michael Eric Dyson recently used the pronunciation of VP Kamala Harris’ name to accuse a Republican congresswoman of “racism.”
Dyson, who earlier in the month used the n-word in a speech to a group of Alabama educators, told South Carolina U.S. Representative Nancy Mace she was part of the “legacy of white disregard for the humanity of Black people” for saying “Ka-MA-la” instead of “KA-ma-la.”
In the August 15 CNN segment, Dyson and others on the panel immediately jumped in to correct Mace, who responded “you can call her whatever you want.”
Mace subsequently is called “disrespectful,” with Dyson adding “We don’t call you Nancy ‘Mah-chee.’”
“I know you don’t intend it to be that way, that’s the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of Black people,” Dyson continued, according to Raw Story.
Mace retorted “Oh, so now you’re calling me a racist? That is b.s. That is complete b.s.” with Dyson then responding “You don’t have to intend racism to accomplish it. Your disrespect of Kamala Harris is part of a tradition of disrespect.”
From the article:
“You are intending that I am racist and that is offensive and it’s wrong,” Mace said, talking in unison with Dyson.
When Dyson insisted he wasn’t calling Mace a racist, she doubled down: “You are. You absolutely are and that is disgusting.”
Later in the clip, Dyson insists Mace pronounce Harris’ first name right. When she doesn’t, the panel in unison shouts: “Kah-muh-la!”
Democratic strategist Keith Boykin then shouts, “You’re doing this on purpose congresswoman!”
Dyson further accused Mace of “normalizing” a kind of “viciousness,” according to The Hill.
After he said Mace’s “disrespect” was “disgusting,” Mace countered with “You know what, you know what’s disgusting to women is her disrespect of women. She doesn’t know what a woman is.”
The professor then challenged Mace to pronounce Harris’ name correctly. After she did not, Dyson said “You’re a white woman disrespecting a Black woman,” with Boykin adding “You’re doing this on purpose, congresswoman!”
Watch the segment:
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Written by the staff reporters at The College Fix.
Photo “Michael Eric Dyson” by Michael Eric Dyson.
I don’t have trouble pronouncing the Vice-Puppet name. It’s easy to say: Proper Garden Tool.
What an leftist this man is.
Why is there a “professor” of black studies?
Is there a professor of “white studies”?
What a waste of academic class time.
Vandy is radical and teach nothing but nonsense. I have zero respect in that entire institution for the last few decades.
The nutty professors at Vandy are a dime a dozen. Dyson is foolish, insecure and would conclude that Professor Carlo M. Cipolla hit the nail on the head on Dyson in defining his five universal laws of human stupidity.
“In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.”
I would toss in the majority of the current Demoncratic administration and pay tribute to Ms. Harris Emhoff is an award winner.
“Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”
I will forego all of Cipolla’s laws but it it well worth one to look up and read his entire findings.
“Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”
“No matter how many idiots you suspect yourself surrounded by, Cipolla wrote, you are invariably lowballing the total. This problem is compounded by biased assumptions that certain people are intelligent based on superficial factors like their job, education level, or other traits we believe to be exclusive of stupidity. They aren’t. Which takes us to:
“Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.”
“Cipolla posits stupidity is a variable that remains constant across all populations. Every category one can imagine—gender, race, nationality, education level, income—possesses a fixed percentage of stupid people. There are stupid college professors. There are stupid people at Davos and at the UN General Assembly. There are stupid people in every nation on earth. How numerous are the stupid amongst us? It’s impossible to say. And any guess would almost certainly violate the first law, anyway.”
“Law 3: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
“Consistent stupidity is the only consistent thing about the stupid. This is what makes stupid people so dangerous. Cipolla explains:”
“A stupid creature will harass you for no reason, for no advantage, without any plan or scheme and at the most improbable times and places. You have no rational way of telling if and when and how and why the stupid creature attacks. When confronted with a stupid individual you are completely at his mercy.”
“We can do nothing about the stupid. The difference between societies that collapse under the weight of their stupid citizens and those who transcend them are the makeup of the non-stupid. Those progressing in spite of their stupid possess a high proportion of people acting intelligently, those who counterbalance the stupid’s losses by bringing about gains for themselves and their fellows.”
Stupid people call everyone a racist who is on the outside of their irrational thinking. The stupid can’t define the term “racist” because it is totally objective.
I have a four letter name and it’s Scandinavian. Only one person in my life ever pronounced it correctly without me telling them first. I’ve learned to answer to various versions as its simply. easier. I just say “close enough” because I know they won’t remember.
When a party can’t define woman and fail to understand God created man and then woman in his image. One cannot mix and match and come up with the 12 options that the current administration is offering to the little tykes upon entering public institutions. Society is harmed by this insanity and becomes dysfunctional. I won’t go into the next phase of the rainbow mafia agender but it’s coming sooner than later. It’s all to appease Satan’s great allies. It scares me and advanced science researchers have zero boundaries and complete lack of human ethics.
Personally I tend to think Vanderbilt is becoming “The University of Idiotsville” along with the Ivy League Institutions. I have never been impressed with anyone that graduates from these schools of nonsense.
Biden claimed he was an expert on foreign policy however he made horrible decisions but he did little if anything his entire political life. Bidenism has crumbled a once great nation.
Harris knows nothing about anything of importance and that should be the biggest red flag to all conscious people. Sadly it’s not.
another useless individual peddling B S
Another lefty educated beyond their intelligence.
Has anyone considered the hunt for microaggressions or the propagating of “historical racism” as being more racist than the unintentional “racism” being fought against?
If I want to refer to the VP as “Kumquat” or “Ho-Bama,” it’s my right under the First Amendment of the US Constitution! I choose not to use those terms, to avoid insulting kumquats, mostly, because they badly communicate the idea of the current Vice President.
There is no need to pull our punches on the accusation of racism. It is better to see America through the lens of being a “person” rather than “of color.”