Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

Call to worship -- Hymns of praise -- Invocation -- Scripture reading -- Sermon : Repenting of whiteness : Inventing whiteness; The five stages of white grief; The plague of white innocence ; Being Black in America : Nigger; Our own worst enemy?; Coptopia -- Benediction -- Offering plate -- Prelude to service -- Closing prayer.;Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.