Michael Eric Dyson on President Obama & White Panic Part 1

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Published by Drew G. I. Hart, PhD

Rev. Dr. Drew G. I. Hart is an associate professor of theology at Messiah University and has 10 years of pastoral experience prior to teaching. He currently directs Messiah University's "Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice" program and co-hosts Inverse Podcast with Jarrod McKenna, an award-winning peace activist from Australia. Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (2016) and Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance (2020). And he is also a co-editor and contributor to the recently published book entitled Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair (Nov. 2023). Hart received bcmPEACE’s 2017 Peacemaker Award, the 2019 W.E.B. Du Bois Award in Harrisburg, PA, and most recently in December 2023 Life Esteem Ministries recognized him in Harrisburg with the Harambee Award for the Nguzo Saba Principle of Umoja—Unity for his faith-based activism and public scholarship in the community. Drew and his family live in Harrisburg, PA.

3 thoughts on “Michael Eric Dyson on President Obama & White Panic Part 1”

  3. I think what bothered me about part one has to do with how it goes against James 5:16 “Therefore, confess your sins to one another” Operative word being “Your” sins. Collect a group of people from anywhere in the US for a political rally and you will find at least one of those people with some level of racism in their heart. Now, because that’s true – Dyson then takes the liberty (against the above scripture) to get out the widest brush he can and starts painting with the broadest strokes to create a picture of racism and white fear that I don’t find credible. Especially since so many white people voted for Obama in the first place. Is Dyson saying those white people voted out of fear?

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