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050 00$aE185.615$b.D955 2017
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100 1 $aDyson, Michael Eric,$eauthor.
245 10$aTears we cannot stop :$ba sermon to white America /$cMichael Eric Dyson.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c[2017].
300 $a228 p. ;$c20 cm.
505 0 $aI. Call to worship -- II. Hymns of praise -- III. Invocation -- IV. Scripture reading -- V. Sermon -- Repenting of whiteness -- Inventing whiteness -- The five stages of white grief -- The plague of white innocence -- Being Black inAmerica -- Nigger -- Our own worst enemy? -- Coptopia -- VI. Benediction -- VII. Offering plate -- VIII. Prelude to service -- IX. Closing prayer.
520 2 $a"In the wake of yet another set of police killings of black men, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a tell-it-straight, no holds barred piece for the NYT on Sunday July 7: Death in Black and White (It was updated within a day to acknowledge the killing of police officers in Dallas). The response has been overwhelming. Beyoncé and Isabel Wilkerson tweeted it, JJ Abrams, among many other prominent people, wrote him a long fan letter. The NYT closed the comments section after 2,500 responses, and Dyson has been on NPR, BBC, and CNN non-stop since then. Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause: Nothing. Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds tothat question. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed or discounted. As Dyson writes: At birth you are given a pair of binoculars that see black life from a distance, never with the texture of intimacy. Those binoculars are privilege; they are status, regardless of your class. In fact the greatest privilege that exists is for white folk to get stopped by a cop and notend up dead...The problem is you do not want to know anything different from what you think you know...You think we have been handed everything because we fought your selfish insistence that the world, all of it--all its resources, all itsriches, all its bounty, all its grace--should be yours first and foremost, and if there's anything left, why then we can have some, but only if we ask politely and behave gratefully"--Provided by publisher.
650 0$aWhites$zUnited States$xAttitudes.
650 0$aRacism$zUnited States.
650 0$aRace discrimination$zUnited States.
650 0$aRace relations$xReligious aspects$xChristianity.
650 0$aWhites$xRace identity$zUnited States.
650 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity.
651 0$aUnited States$xRace relations.