Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
Dyson desperately wants his
readers to confront the sources of…violence in our nation's longstanding
culture of white supremacy. But he also knows how many political arguments and
sociological studies have fallen on deaf ears. And so rather than a treatise, Tears
We Cannot Stop is a fiery sermon, and an unabashedly emotional, personal
appeal…The result is one of the most frank and searing discussions of race I
have ever read…Dyson is all too familiar with the claims of innocence and the
kneejerk defensiveness that will surely greet this book, and yet he sets out to
conquer such denial not only with the difficult truth but also, astonishingly,
with love…Again and again Dyson makes it clear that more than white guilt, he
seeks action, and more than condemnation, he wants change…A deeply serious,
urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin's The
Fire Next Time and King's Why We Can't Wait.