Tim Allen ‘N-Word’ Rant Condemned By Michael Eric Dyson On ‘Melissa Harris-Perry’

That perspective doesn’t mean a whole lot, argued Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson on Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC show on Sunday. Dyson condemned Allen for trying “to reassume the appropriate privilege of whiteness, which is to dictate the terms of the debate” around the word.

Dyson continued:

Look, y’all invented the n-word. We didn’t invent it. We just co-opted it. We hijacked it. We did a carjacking on that word a few decades ago, and now you’re mad because we’ve made more sexy use of it—some denigration as well. And now you want back in? No, you can’t have back in.[…] He says it’s confusing to me. It ain’t confusing! Here’s a general rule of thumb to follow when using the n-word for white people. Never. When you do that, then you understand you can’t do it.”

 

Dyson summed up his argument by reflecting that, “[a]s Chris Rock said, white people control the whole world but they feel if they can’t use the n-word, somehow their power has been removed?

“No! Grow up, allow us to determine what is in and out.”

Watch the whole segment on ‘Melissa Harris-Perry’ below:

Article Appeared @http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/tim-allen-n-word_n_3667741.html

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