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Top Georgetown prof hits Obama, ‘little practical use’ to blacks

By Paul Bedard
Published July 13, 2018 2:13pm ET
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Top Georgetown prof hits Obama, ‘little practical use’ to blacks
Beer Summit. In this July 30, 2009 photo, President Barack Obama, right, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, have a beer with Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., second from left, and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. A review of the case released Wednesday, June 30, 2010, said both Gates and Crowley missed opportunities to "ratchet down" the situation and end things more calmly during a confrontation when Gates was arrested outside his Cambridge home in July 2009. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

He’s described as the “widely celebrated” Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, one of the nation’s 100 most influential African Americans, and he’s been making news on a new book tour by bashing President Trump.

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But as former President Obama readies a midterm push for Democrats, critics are starting to highlight Dyson’s little-noted assault on the nation’s first black president in his latest book, What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin, And Our Unfinished Conversation About Race In America.

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