TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dyson,Michael Eric
TI  - Tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white America 
SN  - 9781250135995
AV  - E185.615 .D97 2017
U1  - 305.800973 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Racism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Call to worship -- Hymns of praise -- Invocation -- Scripture reading -- Sermon. Repenting of whiteness. Inventing whiteness ; The five stages of white grief ; The plague of white innocence -- Being Black in America. Nigger ; Our own worst enemy? ; Coptopia -- Benediction -- Offering plate -- Prelude to service -- Closing prayer
N2  - 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
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