He also makes the bizarre claim the left “can’t even mention” racism. Huh? That’s all they do these days.

Michael Eric Dyson: No doubt about it. But what I’m suggesting you — but when they did the poll about the inclination of the American public to support it, that was much higher than expected, number one. But number two, I’m not saying the resistance wasn’t there, but I’m saying that Barack Obama faces, in this case, some resistance that LBJ didn’t. LBJ knew explicitly that white supremacy was the predicate for the resistance. We can’t even mention that now — that some of the resistance that Barack Obama is facing now is racially based. And the racial basis of the resistance for those who call it out, are seen as somehow playing the race card. That’s not to deny at all, or nullify, what Tavis Smiley said, in terms of challenging this president to step up to the plate and articulate a vision that is both holistic and comprehensive that is transformative to African American people in the same way that LBJ did, but it would be also ignoring the historical and political context to deny the resistance that Barack Obama faces in a way that we can’t even publicly articulate and examine as a matter of consensus.