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nNOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER n nEverybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison. --Barack Obama Published in the wake of the last presidential election, Tears We Cannot Stop spent two months on the New York Times bestseller list. Michael Eric 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. As Dyson writes, The problem is you do not want to know anything different from what you think you know... You think we have been handed everything because we fought your selfish insistence that the world, all of it--all its resources, all its riches, all its bounty, all its grace--should be yours first and foremost, and if theres anything left, why then we can have some, but only if we ask politely and behave gratefully. Short, emotional, literary, powerful, this modern classic is required reading for all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations. nNOW A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, INDIEBOUND, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CHRONICLE HERALD, SALISBURY POST, GUELPH MERCURY TRIBUNE, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post - Bustle - Mens Journal - The Chicago Reader - StarTribune - Blavity - The Guardian - NBC New Yorks Bills Books - Kirkus - Essence One of the most frank and searing discussions on race ... a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwins The Fire Next Time and Kings Why We Cant Wait. --The New York Times Book Review Toni Morrison hails Tears We Cannot Stop as Elegantly written and powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish. n nStephen King says: Heres a sermon thats as fierce as it is lucid...If youre black, youll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If youre white, Dyson tells you what you need to know--what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen. 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 ra
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