NC State’s Technician reported on this lecture, but it was, it turns out, a bit scarce on the details.
Fortunately, NC State students pay for The Nubian Message, which styles itself “a weekly publication that presents news about and for African-American students at N.C. State” and lists in its masthead such luminaries as Mumia A. Jamal, Geronimo Pratt, the Black Panther Party, and some individuals who didn’t kill anyone. (Before you start to wonder about a public university making students pay for a racialist organization, you should know that student fees also finance The Aryan Message to present news about and for white students at N.C. State, The Latino Message to present news about and for Latino students at N.C. State, The Kosher Message to present news about and for Jewish students at N.C. State, and so forth. Well, not really.)
Anyway, I found the April 28 issue of the Nubian in D.H. Hill Library at N.C. State today, and on page 6 it gives a fuller account of Michael Eric Dyson’s lecture during Pan-Afrikan Week. Here are a few excerpts:
Commenting that terror didn’t begin with 911, Dyson said that terror has been around for centuries and is still going on.
“Terror, we haven [sic] involved in terror for a long time, beginning with the Native American being terrorized by Englishmen,” he said. “For a more recent incident of terror, just walk down the street and pull out your wallet; you’ll get shot 41 times and hit 19; I don’t know about you, but I define that as terror.”
Dyson added that the “US of Amnesia” slept with terrorism, saying “daddy Bush was in bed with Bin Ladin and was a key defender of Saadam Hussein.” …
Dyson ended by saying that Bush needs to be put out of the White House, that he, himself, is a paid pest, and that the purpose of a cultural center is to educate a suppressed group about themselves because they weren’t allowed to “exist.”
