Media critic and pundit, Paul Porter says TV One’s coverage of last night’s DNC convention can be summed up in two words — Gluteus Maximus.
In a statement to EUR, Porter goes on to say:
TV One’s “After Party” analysis of Michelle Obama rear end by Michael Eric Dyson, lacked class while lowering the low standard for television news.
Dyson’s admiration for Michelle Obama’s figure was off base and deserves an apology from TV One and and the George Town Proffessor.
It’s tough enough trudging through opinion based biases on a daily level with pundits and analyst, Dyson has officially added sexism to mainstream media’s divorce of discussing real issues.
Michael Eric Dyson’s referenced a recent trip to Europe, by labeling European women with flat rear ends and was proud to see Michelle Obama’s, “gluteus maximus” as a symbol of the beauty of African American women. Education and common sense are obviously two distinct values and Dyson’s comments are living proof.
So I’m sitting here trying to wrap my head around this comment by “The Great Michael Eric Dyson”. Honestly, I can’t, the comment was inappropriate on so many levels that no psuedo intellectual explanation of it will make sense.
Here are some possible explanations:
a. I was merely complimenting the beauty of a woman of color.
Well I for one think my mother is a beautiful woman, my sister is beautiful, I have had numerous beautiful girlfriends but I would be highly offended if someone commented on their beauty by referencing their “booty”. As an intellectual, social critic I really can not understand how he fixed his mouth to make this absurd comment.
Michelle Obama is a beautiful woman, regardless of your trip to Europe and seeing all the flat butts in the world what right does that give you to discuss her rear end on national television. It is outright disrespectful. All this coming from the man who a month ago was ranting about black men’s disrespect and mistreatment of black women. Well Mike, I hate to tell you, when you meet a black woman, comments about her breast and butt are not compliments in fact its degrading. They like it more when we compliment their intelligence, their natural beauty, hell even their hair.
b. I was just complimenting the brother Barack Obama on his woman.
You can’t be this stupid, I mean Barack is presidential and all but I remember him telling the Republicans to lay off his wife, what do you think he would say to your dumb self for discussing his wife’s butt on air. As a man I would want to know why you were looking at my wife’s butt in the first place, but not only are you looking at it, you have the audacity to comment. Michael Eric Dyson loves to pull some hood credibility to his name when he is discussing the plight of African American men. In your search for hood credibility did you ever notice that black men are extremely protective of their women and do not tolerate the blatant disrespect that you aimed at sister Michelle.
I mean you obviously owe Michelle Obama, the Obama family, and everyone who heard your distasteful comment an apology. But you can also stop driving your psuedo intellectual rhetoric down our throats, you can go back into coon world where you obviously belong! Peace and Love.
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