Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
(Format used for this read: Audiobook)
This book y’all.
Daaaaaang.
He drops some TRUTH BOMBS on every. Single. Page.
He addresses SO many issues in a very direct, honest way.
This is written TO white people…and if you are white you will most likely have times of discomfort while listening…
but hopefully you will sit in that feeling and allow it to do work in you..
because that discomfort will bring conviction, education, growth, change, empathy and lament IF YOU ALLOW IT.
There is no tip toeing around ANY issue and he does not leave any stone unturned (as my friend Kristina said to me yesterday).
The author himself reads this book and it literally feels like he is in the room speaking to you, demanding you hear his words and LISTEN.
Here is a summary:
“Short, emotional, literary, powerful―Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.
As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man’s voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece “Death in Black and White,” Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop―a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that 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.
‘The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future. If we don’t act now, if you don’t address race immediately, there very well may be no future’ “
☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻
That quote right there.
Exactly why you need to read this book.
That is all that needs to be said by me.
Go listen to HIM.