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Friday, October 24, 2008 12:00 AM

"There's an awful tough tightrope for Obama to walk"

An interview with sociologist Michael Eric Dyson on Barack Obama, Martin Luther King and race relations in America.

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  • Thursday, October 23, 2008 08:57 PM

    Dyson Interview

    This interview is something I have been looking for during the waning days of this campaign. Dyson is one of the most interesting men to come along in decades. I see him on C-Span selling his books, I see him on cable news as a pundit and I wish I could see more of him. Every time someone from the Right appears as a pundit attacking so-called "antiAmerican" Americans, I wish Dyson were there to lay down the law. He is a busy man. He is sometimes categorized as an opposite force to Cosby, but I think Dyson has a lot of respect for old Bill. I surmised from the interview that the Black Intelligensia is going to cut President Obama some slack, but people like Dyson will never sit quietly on the sidelines. Dyson is upbeat about an Obama Presidency. And so am I.

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