CNN personality Michael Eric Dyson recently railed against South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) after she exposed text messages that supposedly showed him flirting with her. Mace had recently appeared on a CNN panel alongside Dyson, where the two had a heated exchange regarding Vice President Kamala Harris.
Mace entered the messages into the Congressional record last week, describing the nature of the messages from Dyson. “I would like to also enter into the record a screenshot of a text message I received from the esteemed professor from Vanderbilt, Michael Eric Dyson, after my CNN interview, begged me for photos,” Mace said.
She continued, “In this text, he says, after calling me racist on CNN, ‘shh don’t tell anybody, we look good together.’ And sent me a kissy emoji,” Mace added. “The guy says I’m gorgeous in all these photos. I don’t think he’s that bent out of shape on how anyone pronounces Kamala. And if we’re going to have that standard, you got to hold it to both sides, not just one or the other.”
Mace added, “I would like to also enter into the record a screenshot of a text message I received from the esteemed professor from Vanderbilt, Michael Eric Dyson, after my CNN interview, begged me for photos. In this text, he says, after calling me racist on CNN, ‘shh don’t tell anybody, we look good together.’ And sent me a kissy emoji. The guy says I’m gorgeous in all these photos. I don’t think he’s that bent out of shape on how anyone pronounces Kamala. And if we’re going to have that standard, you got to hold it to both sides, not just one or the other.”
Responding to the message, Dyson lashed out at Mace, claiming the messages were false and misleading. “Hey, my friends. Michael, Eric Dyson here, just want to clear something out, a vicious untruth and rumor that’s being spread by Congresswoman Nancy mace, claiming I was trying to hit on her,” he said. “So I’m trying to figure this out. So this is our complete text exchange that she says proves I was trying to hit on her.”
He continued, suggesting the heated CNN exchange between he and Mace was the product was the product of racism. “We were on CNN together. She was vicious, she was nasty. She refused to call Kamala Harris by her right name. We had a bitter exchange about that. She claims in the interview that I called a racist when I went out of my way to say she wasn’t a racist,” he said.
He concluded, “Again, vicious, misleading, lying, distorting, and trying to pretend as if somebody’s trying to holler at you when that’s the furthest thing from my mind. My mistake was being gracious to you. I’m trying to say, Oh my God, we are opposites, but we can still be gracious to one another. I can still compliment you. I can still say nice things to you. There was no attempt to do anything but to be gracious to you. But you have proved to be what I said. You weren’t a vicious white supremacist racist who is incapable of accepting the generosity and kindness of a black man, you are a sorry.”
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