Michael Eric Dyson Cries ‘Cancel Culture’ on The View After Nancy Mace Exposes His Flirty Texts

Michael Eric Dyson ranted against “cancel culture” during an appearance on The View where he was asked about flirty private messages he sent to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) following an explosive clash between the two on CNN.

Mace entered the messages from Dyson into the congressional record during a House Oversight hearing. In the messages, Dyson told Mace the pair “look good together,” but not to tell anybody. He also sent a kissy face emoji with this message. When Mace sent a laughing face emoji back, Dyson complimented Mace’s “gorgeousness.”

The direct messages were surprising to many as they followed a fiery clash between the two on CNN where Dyson repeatedly accused Mace of mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris’s name. Dyson accused Mace of unintentionally taking part in the “history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of Black people.”

Mace refused to change her pronunciation, accusing Dyson of trying to paint her as a racist.

On Tuesday’s The View, hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin gave Dyson a platform to explain the messages and none offered pushback as he dismissed them and accused Mace of pushing a “racist trope.”

“So because we live in the crazy year 2024, she then later accused you of sending flirty texts, which she then entered the congressional record. Can you clear this up for us, professor?” Griffin asked.

“The thing is, let’s look at a little background. I’m a preacher so I know sin. My own and others. Right? Nobody’s perfect. I saw Whoopi yesterday talk about that fact in regard to Janet Jackson. People make mistakes and we have to acknowledge that,” Dyson responded.

The professor and pastor did not directly acknowledge what his messages actually said. He argued the “temper” has changed over the years in what it is okay to say and not say to a woman, but he does not see a kissy face emoji and complimenting a woman’s looks and saying they look good together as flirting.

“What you could say 20 years ago, [you] can’t say today, not because you’re suddenly wrong but the temper of the times has changed. So if you acknowledge a woman’s beauty and there is a power imbalance, there’s a problem there. Peer to peer, still cautious but different,” he said.

Dyson went on to rant about cancel culture and to say he “lied” when he called Mace a “wonderful woman.”

“We’re living in a toxic culture where there’s a cancel culture gotcha. We’re not trying to elevate, we’re trying to eviscerate. So when it comes to Nancy Mace, you see I tried to be nice to the woman. I said you’re a wonderful woman, I lied, but I tried to be nice to her and even when I pointed out to her what the repetition of the misnaming of Kamala Harris would do, she got defensive, ‘oh, you’re calling me a racist.’ No,” he said.

Dyson did not call Mace a racist during their CNN exchange, but he’s since called her a bigot and on Tuesday he accused her of pushing a “racist trope.”

“I think Shakespeare said, the lady doth too much, or in the hood, a hit dog will holler. So the point is that this woman has now depended upon like her inspiration Donald Trump a racist trope. The black brute seeks the innocent white woman and now I’m seeking lasciviously to approach her. I didn’t call her names, I acknowledged her humanity,” he said.

Dyson wrapped up his Mace comments by quoting the Bible to tell white Christians they “hate” themselves, including Mace.

Dyson said:

To all of these white Christians, and she’s one of them, the Bible says, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and turn their face to God and turn from their wicked ways. Then I will hear from heaven and then I will forgive them their sins and I will heal the land. They have not forgiven themselves. white Christians hate themselves for the past wrongs that have been done and I’m here as a loving Christian to say, let’s grapple with that past, acknowledge the historical legacy of supremacy, don’t deny it, don’t erase it, don’t eviscerate it, don’t remove it from the history books, confront it and then when you forgive yourself, we can go forward. I am a human being. Have I made mistakes? Absolutely. Have I said the wrong thing to people that I wish I could take back? Absolutely. But I am a child of God and that means I don’t have to be perfect to be useful and I don’t have to be unflawed to shine bright.

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