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REBROADCAST: Michael Eric Dyson on the Racial Reckoning That Was 'Long Time Coming'

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In his new book “Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America," sociologist and cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson looks at the history of systemic racism in the U.S. and how it led to this year’s unrest and protests for racial justice. Written as letters to Black victims of systemic racism and police brutality, including Eric Garner and Breonna Taylor, Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from slavery to the present. We’ll talk to Dyson about the book and why he remains hopeful in the fight for racial and social justice. (originally broadcast on 12/8/20.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

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Coming up on forum, sociologist, preacher, and cultural critic Michael Eric

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Dyson. His new book is Long Time Coming, Reckoning with Race in America. Through letters

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written to black victims of police killings, including Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and

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Eric Garner, he traces the genealogy of anti-blackness, from slavery to the events of 2020.

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We'll listen back to my December 8 interview with Dyson, and since this is a previously recorded show,

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we won't be taking victims of racism and politics. I'm Mina Kim. In his new book, Long Time Coming, scholar and preacher Michael Eric Dyson writes letters to victims

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of racism and police violence, Brianna Taylor, George Floyd, Elijah McLean, and he grapples

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with America's attempts to reckon with race.

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