Tears we cannot stop
Subtitle: a sermon to White America
By: Michael Eric Dyson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781250135995
Subjects: Racism; Race relations; History; Race discrimination; Christianity
Description: Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a White woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
Table of contents: title: Call to worship; title: Hymns of praise; title: Invocation; title: Scripture reading; title: Sermon. Repenting of Whiteness. Inventing Whiteness ; The five stages of White grief ; The plague of White innocence.; title: Being Black in America. Nigger ; Our own worst enemy? ; Coptopia.; title: Benediction; title: Offering plate; title: Prelude to service; title: Closing prayer.