Posted on 06/18/2017 8:44:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Author of 18 books and numerous articles, clergyman, preacher, winner of the American Book Award, ubiquitous television and radio personality, regular college lecturer, Georgetown sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson is a go-to man on race issues.
Dyson’s new book, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, is cheered by Toni Morrison for its “profound cultural analysis,” and its “guidance for moral redemption.” With literary grace applied to a story of American racism that itself can reduce a person to tears, Dyson calls upon white America to accept blame for the condition of black America. Beyond that, he asks white America to draw black Americans into its bosom. How will white America respond?
An answer, I suggest, involves an issue that Dyson fails to face squarely: crime and especially black crime, and this failure, paradoxically, impedes rather than helps racial reconciliation.
Why do many Americans with resources and choices live in gated communities? Is it because they fear black crime? By raising this crime issue himself, Dyson allows for the possibility.
For Dyson, to be sure, the fear is morally wrongheaded. Black people, he begins, have no agency; crime is the product of racism and racism alone. Dyson is not altogether wrong; psychological and economic pressures cannot help but encourage socially destructive lifestyles.
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Whatever happened to accountability?
Dyson calls upon white America to accept blame for the condition of black America
nope...those whites responsible for the black condition today are long dead; their recent progeny (which I most certainly am not) cannot be held responsible for the sins of the fathers...at the turn of the twentieth century Dyson’s premise might have held water, but it is now 117 years since; accountability and realization is part of the human condition...
I don’t need a sermon, and I am not guilty, and I won’t bow down before the golden calf and beg for absolution.
Anybody who blames all “Whites” for the raw deal Blacks got, is a racist. I had nothing to do with it and resent the implication.
I reject the idea of collective guilt.
I keep asking the same question...to wit, “What happened to accountability?”. In the case of all the Antifa/BLM etc. groups, how come the people individually who do the crime are not doing the time? I think the group “title” does no throw the brick, shoot the gun, or fire the homes and businesses.
I do not accept any part in creating the problems Blacks have now. I think the blacks have created their own story and it isn’t fitting very well within the total American community of Asians, Hispanics, Irish, Germans, Italians, etc. who came to the United States, put their noses to the grindstone and accomplished by themselves what blacks want given to them.
Many blacks are very accomplished, as accomplished as anyone else, and I don’t hear the whining from them. In fact I hear the same questions I have.... They aren’t asking for anything either now and never did. What made them different from the BLMers of today?
‘Dyson calls upon white America to accept blame for the condition of black America.’
And it’s popular with Black people...? Shocker.
My mom used to tell me about signs hanging outside of businesses that stated, "Irish need not apply."
Fifty years ago, it was difficult if not impossible for a pregnant woman to get a job.
Thirty-five years ago, I was unable to take advantage of a free brake replacement for my Firebird because I didn't have a man in the family to drive it to the dealer.
Long story short: keep your nose to the grindstone, get your education (and pay for it yourself), try not to make unwise choices and celebrate the good life.
When studying hard and getting good grades is called “acting black”, there will be a change in the black community.
All cultures that make education their first priority succeed.
It is what works.
The Brookings Institution did a study over 20 years ago that said if people do these 5 things in order, 98% of them will move out of poverty.
Finish your education
Get a job
Get married
Buy a house
Have children
Notice have children is last.
98% of the people in this study moved out of poverty by following those 5 steps.
Funny, black church goers don’t seem to have this crime problem. Just a statistical anomaly I guess.
The median IQ of American blacks is 85. This explains most of their problems. White people have nothing to do with it—except the white people who systematically destroyed the black family with welfare and government schools.
Institutionalized racism was over long ago.
Today’s Crime and poverty are the result of poor choices. For some reason black culture is prone to fostering bad choicemaking.
Indeed, always looking to blame outside forces for ones problems, in and of itself, may contribute to a culture of bad choices.
My great, great, great, grandfather fought and shed blood to free these people. That many of their progeny have decided to live like animals is their choice. I choose to follow Christ!
Some cultures are toxic and deadly. My children will not be listening to come killing ho raping Rap music
I think the author has this backwards. "Socially destructive lifestyles" produce people who are psychologically dysfunctional and poor.
Seems like a feedback loop. More of this gets you more of that. More of that gets you more of this.
True. People can get stuck in a downward spiral and not realize that they can make a change.
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