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Toure Show

Michael Eric Dyson–I Love Blackness

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Michael Eric Dyson is a brilliant public intellectual and a great friend. I love talking with him because he’s genius and because he loves Blackness so deeply. Here we dive into some of the messages in his new book Entertaining Race where he talks about the history of Black Americans being entertainers on every level. We are performative on a celebrity level from music to screen to sports, but we are also amazingly and beautifully performative on every level. Regular Black folks talk and walk and greet each other in ways that are expressive and performative and beautiful. We talk through all of that. Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 301 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus, Shanta Covington, and Nick Karp Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Music Lover, it's time for Somme Tom Bona jamming to some yot rock

0:07.9

Gone old school with some beep up open for fun bingo 90 if you like your tunes more vibies,

0:14.4

playing can be exciting till you feel the need for dancing.

0:18.3

Here we go!

0:19.3

I'm for a drum and bass!

0:21.3

Oh, just 110 pounds pounds Tom Bola open for fun

0:26.5

terms apply 18 plus please play safely okay ready Okay, ready. Take what you know, and she's a thing about baby.

0:47.0

I'm thinking about baby,

0:50.0

one to need it.

0:52.0

I'll only these things are good brown now. Maybe want you to need it, I'm going to be here.

0:55.0

I'm here, seeing you wanting you, hey.

0:59.4

Good sort of race, oh, okay, though. Good sort of race, okay okay though. The tour ratio, okay though.

1:05.0

That might be the best question I've ever been asked. In this book, how are you arguing, how are you saying that black performativity has shaped America writ large?

1:26.8

I mean, we're just talking about Martin Luther King Jr.

1:28.9

The performance of King in 1963 at the March on Washington and look look at the internal dynamics.

1:37.0

Martin Luther King Jr. was doing a bit of performance himself.

1:40.0

Now Martin King Junior usually spoke without notes, right?

1:43.1

That's part of the black genius tradition that from which he emerges

1:46.4

Having a sermon write it out do your thing but not using a manuscript.

1:50.0

But on that day he's hit he's aiming for defenses if we can use a baseball day, he's aiming for defenses,

1:52.8

if we can use a baseball metaphor.

1:54.7

So he starts off a little bit wooden

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