Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson said today that he thinks that “this president runs from race like a black man runs from a cop,” and that “we should push the president” about race.
On MSNBC, Dyson was discussing the controversy over Harry Reid’s recent apology for his remark during the 2008 campaign that Barack Obama has “no Negro dialect.”
Dyson said that Obama not “sounding black” is not necessarily only about “intonation,” but “it’s about the ideology.”
He went on: “You ain’t talking about civil rights, you ain’t talking bout affirmative action, you’re not pressing the issue.”Â
“If Barack Obama was standing forth in America to speak brilliantly and courageously about the issues of race, he’d sound a lot more black too,” said Dyson.
He continued:
I think that we should push the president. This president runs from race like a black man runs from a cop. What we have to do is ask Mr. Obama to stand up and use his bully pulpit to help us. He is loathe to speak about race.
Here’s the video:
