Topic - Michael Dyson

“She was the people’s diva,” sociologist Michael Eric Dyson said at the time.

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"But I have been hit with an onslaught of death threats and being called the N-word out of White rage for a mistake I made, for which I am willing to apologize certainly," he added. "And what Black people are often up against is the fact that we have to be told that emotion will not lead our offering of justice to you. ... And yet so much emotion is directed at us, so much hatred is directed at us, so much White rage is directed at us."