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2006 comments

This gentleman needs links to his (this) article for ALL words that refer to or about him and any fruit of his efforts. The minimum to fit this requirement would be jump pages for those referenes that don't rate full pages themselves.

The definitions for the words he coined should come directly from the author's published works... not from someone claiming to say what he meant to say and they should be accessable either in their own pages or on this page with their mention (and jump pages sending direct searches to the location of their definitions.)

ANY variation from this would nullify Wikipedia's claim to be a source of the truth and also shows censorship of an active minority

(before anyone denies this I should point out that Wikipedia is a World wide encyclopedia; there are billions of people in the world; and it doesn't matter if you limit your count to english speakers, internet users, or both: the few thousands(?) that (probably multiplely) voted to remove the coined words in less than TWO weeks of their introduction to this depository is censorship of the order not seen since the church of England bought the entire run of the Bible translated into english.)

This article should be classified as a stub. It simply does not do justice to Dr. Dyson's body of work and simply harps on two of his intentionally tongue-in-cheek neologisms.

What exactly does it mean that Dyson "holds an earned Ph.D."? As opposed to an honorary Ph.D.? Are there any other ways, besides honorary, to hold a Ph.D. in religion?

=much needed black fem critique=

I think my justification for adding a black feminist critic section of Michael Eric Dyson’s biography is pretty clear. Anyone who has followed his career knows that Dyson peddles himself as gender conscious even as a “feminist friendly male” who purports to speak on behalf of women. That is his slick marketing tool to gather greater platforms to spread his ideas which are ultimately used to excuse and celebrate hip hop’s sexist treatment of women. In a nutshell: he is given a platform to speak on gender and yet his gender politics are terrible. This bio is incomplete without noting that. A rebuttal to his portrayal in academic and pop cultural circles as gender conscious or even a male feminist is a shame and it needed to be said. As long as simultaneously peddles feminism and silences women who disagree with him this critique of Dyson’s gender politics should follow him wherever he goes. Aganju (talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aganju (talk • contribs) 22:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

I changed the picture to the real Mike Dyson. 19:36, 7 April 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.88.65 (talk • contribs)

name of article

For as long as I've been aware of him (dating back to the mid-90s), Michael Eric Dyson has been universally referred to by his full name, "Michael Eric Dyson" -- not "Michael Dyson". This is also reflected in the name of one of his books, "The Michael Eric Dyson Reader". I have therefore moved the article to the correct name. Cgingold (talk) 23:51, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Go Ahead, "axe" the question

I think that the last sentence of the article at present, quoting the subject as saying "Go ahead, axe me a question" may be a perceptive reference to Dyson's trademark embrace and celebration of vernacular in both the text and the substance of much of his writing. It is perhaps OR that Dyson tends to pronounce the word "ask" in a manner common to those who speak a dialect common in the southern US and stereotypically identified by many as "black" dialect, but it is OR nonetheless.

The problem here is that there is no reference for this quotation, and while the quote may have its genesis in warm acknowledgment of the subject's admiration for purported "black" vernacular, or in some sly and cynical reference to the man's opinions, or is just a racial joke, if it is based on the listener's characterization of Dyson's pronunciation, I believe it is not supportable. I would urge that unless there are very significant references to establish that Dyson has expressly claimed this purportedly "famous" phrase as his own, and has repeatedly, consciously and expressly adopted the quoted idiosyncratic pronunciation, the referenced quote should be eliminated, based on OR.71.197.93.206 (talk) 06:36, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]