Michael Eric Dyson Instagram – Permit me just a bit of nostalgia since social media wasn’t around when I was a young man. These newspaper clippings are from The Detroit News (“Boy’s plea against racism wins award”) The Michigan Chronicle (citing me as a “Boy Wonder”12-year-old champion orator who “drew a standing ovation from the audience”) and another local paper (which cited the requirements for the speech contest pictured here as “a 4 to 5 minute deliverance completely memorized”).
When folk ask me how I endure the racial hatred (calling me racist epithets while tagging me a racist and threatening my life) vicious lies and slander (making baseless and false claims of me as a predator in careless media and on social media by those who claim to abide by justice and by proof and not unfounded hearsay or untrue allegation) and unprincipled professional derision (including by some whose work I nevertheless read and support), I remind them that I’ve been speaking, writing, advocating, protesting, marching, and amplifying the needs and interests of the oppressed for more than 50 years! I will continue to bear witness and love justice as long as there is breath in my body. Love y’all!🙏🏽❤️ | Posted on 09/Aug/2022 00:46:57
