joshua wilsher

Race Matters

Some may see it as white bashing, others, a Commi-convention. Dr Michael Dyson, the Tupac-rapping preacher, and his senior, Harvard and Princeton alumni and best selling author, Dr Cornel West, spoke at the final installment of the Distinguished Lecture Series tonight. Never have I heard speakers such as these. The rhythmic and expressive vocab used in their unapologetic speeches was crazy. Sitting in the second row I looked up and thought, if we were in the thick of the civil rights movement, I'd be listening to that of King and Malcolm X. Their rants were of a viscious legacy of white supremacy that supposedly contributes to the arrested development of American democracy. I could defintely see their point - and hearing the calls of 'speak Doctor, speak' and 'yes sir, tell the word' from the almost exclusively African-American crowd of a thousand or so, I figured they did too. Call me brother Josh!

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 11:58 AM