forgetting her roots in the energetic spirituality, that behaved her style. the preacher in me believes that hers was the best way, to tell our story, to the world, that might never darken our doors, that was surely in need, of a dose of the spirit. for tonight s dose of the spirit, we turn to michael eric dyson, professor at vanderbilt university, baptist minister. my friend and the man about whom, president barack obama once said, everybody who speaks after michael eric dyson, pales in comparison. that is why i am speaking before michael eric dyson, his new book is titled, entertaining race. professor dyson. thank you very much for joining us tonight. let s begin with your title. please explain the title. thank you for your graciousness in your wonderful spirit of openness.
that. if you want to advocate for mental health, go out and advocate for that. we have to work together to address these issues or else, you know, our republic is going to continue falling apart as it has been. david hogg, and jonathan lowy, thank you both very much for joining us. really appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. coming up, the always brilliant professor, michael eric dyson will join us. he has many stories to tell, and he is telling them in his new book. ories to tell, and he is telling them in his new book (naj) at fisher investments, our clients know we have their backs. (other money manager) how do your clients know that? (naj) because as a fiduciary, it s our responsibility to always put clients first. (other money manager) so you do it because you have to? (naj) no, we do it because it s the right thing to do. we help clients enjoy a comfortable retirement. (other money manager) sounds like a big responsibility.
new realities to old truths. the range in this book is really amazing, michael, it s your 24th book, and in it you are a theater critic, you are a preacher, you are wearing many of your in this book. what is the essence that you want people to take away from the book? thank you for acknowledging that, lawrence. you know, i am old school. you are a thinker who thinks about a lot of stuff. you are curious about the world around you. i didn t want to be stuck in specialization. i wanted to talk about theater and talk about photography and talk about preaching and i wanted to go as far as my gifts could take me. so, for me the performance of blackness in the subtitle is what i do every day as an intellectual, scholar, preacher, critic, citizen, i am trying to perform the best version of blackness that i can conjure that i have inherited from
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entertaining in three ways. first of all black people from the very beginning of soldiering america has had entertained the dominant white culture. from the slave ship to the plantation. to the stage of performance. number two we ve had to entertain the idea of race. constantly we are negotiating between him betwixt. segments of our society, that mandate that we address explicitly or implicitly, the issue of, race and thirdly we have had to find ways to be entertaining while talking about race. how do we think about race in ways that are not those old freezes that seemed to be ruthlessly clichéd for some people. we have to find new and inventive ways to try to speak, new reality is the old truths. the range in this book is really amazing, it s your 24th book, and in it you are a theater critic, you are a preacher, you are wearing many of your hats in this book.