Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N78QGS2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 145 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Those binoculars are privilege; they are status, regardless of your class. 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). 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. Beyoncé and Isabel Wilkerson tweeted it; JJ Abrams, among many other prominent people, wrote him a long fan letter. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question. The response has been overwhelming. In fact the greatest privilege that exists is for white folk to get stopped by a cop and not end up dead. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about
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