thanks a lot, michael eric dyson. lakers, celtics, let's go.auerbach from back in the day is wondering what happened here. go ahead. >> well, the nba, no brothers allowed. so, what's happening here is that, yes, white nationalism is the especial of believe in the inherent superiority of white culture, that it is the ethnic bases and the little aggregation of white bodies, the leaves, ideals and perspectives as the dominant threat of american supremacy. white supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief in the inherent superiority of one group over the other. so, yeah, you can make political an ideology distinctions, but at the end of the day, they are bedfellows, they're rising together. one is driving the car, one is riding shotgun, but they both are aimed towards the same direction, which is to hurt people who are not white. >> michael eric dyson, i'm so glad you came on. thank you for breaking this down for everyone. i appreciate your time. thank you. nice to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> well, from gifts to luxury travel to bo

. >> i want to bring in michael eric dyson, a distinguished professor of african american and diaspora at vanderbilt university. my friend, i'm so good to see you. i've been chomping at the bit wondering what your mind has made all of this. what has been a reaction to all of this, and of course the timing, michael eric dyson, that it took that stretch of time to do that old come around? >> you are right, laura coates, you're absolutely right. it is not an about face, it's a half turn. the fact is this is a man who is -- made $25 million on the backs of black players and yet he has showed them little more than contempt and derision since he has ascended to the senate of the united states. this man is smart enough to know what he is doing, he is sending dog whistles out, he is signifying that hey, i am with you, even when he is forced to turn around the compatriots of his who are white nationalists understand that he is doing so as a matter of forced compulsion. political correctness, to cooperate with the stream of the times in order not to be seen, not out of that stream. the bottom li

so let's bring in michael eric dyson, professor of african american studies at vanderbilt university,y of america," first your reaction to these changes? >> ana, thanks for having me. it's quite ludicrous, it's devastatingly deceitful, it's mendacious, and it doesn't recognize the central place of pedagogy. why is the state trying to impose its hand on the teaching of history of african american people for the state's students? this is something that should be generated with educators, experts at disseminaing information. this would be akin to saying that native american people when we teach their history, we should not only talk about the smallpox blanket that were districted by the attempt of native americans to defend themselves that was equally violent. this would be like teaching the holocaust saying that there were some good things that jewish brothers and sisters picked up in those death camps that they survived would be helpful for them to make their way in life. this is ludicrous. this was an institution of enslavement. now they're saying we should teach both rosa parks and t