MSNBC’s Michael Eric Dyson: Obama ‘Spoke Articulately’ by Using N-Word

MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson gave effusive praise to President Barack Obama for his use of the n-word in a podcast interview, saying he “spoke articulately and explicitly” in order to shock polite society.

“Those of us who have been pressing President Obama to speak more explicitly and more articulately about race, this is part of the payoff,” Dyson said on MSNBC’s NewsNation with Tamron Hall. “This is a man who knows so much more than he’s been willing to or allowed to speak about in public spaces.”

“He chooses his words carefully, he chooses his point of entrance carefully, but I think this was an incredibly important moment in intervention on behalf of the American public by our president,” Dyson continued, calling the use of the n-word “a shock to the system.”

“It was effective because he made an intervention by calling the very name that polite society refuses to acknowledge,” he concluded. “And what Obama did was unveil the rough underbelly of racial rancor that continues to roil our nation, and I think it’s to his credit that he spoke articulately and explicitly and went there in a very powerful way.”

Watch, via MSNBC.

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