CNN is rarely the forum where we hear thoughtful points of view, but Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson breaks the mold as he rips apart the befuddled superintendent of Arizona public schools, Tom Horne, over Arizona’s decision to ban ethnic studies.

Be sure not to miss the end of the clip when Horne lists the different races with the ever-so-essentialist “the” preceding: “the Asian, the Indian … .” Priceless. –JCL

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