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A Dialogue About Tears We Cannot Stop

Tuesday, August 29, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

THIS EVENT IS HOSTED BY THE CENTER FOR HEALING RACISM; DIGNITY HOUSTON IS NOT HOSTING; INSTEAD WE ARE POSTING IT BECAUSE WE BELIVE THIS CONVERSATION AN IMPORTANT ONE, AND WE HOPE YOU WILL SUPPORT THE CENTER FOR HEALING RACISM THROUGH ATTENDING AND THROUGH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS

NOTE THAT THERE ARE TWO DATES!

A Dialogue About Tears We Cannot Stop

When some of you say “I don’t see color,” …you don’t help the cause. The failure to see color only benefits white America. A world without color is a world without racial debt.”

“The most radical action a white person can take is to acknowledge … privilege, to say ??In our institutional structures, and in deep psychological structures, our underlying assumption is that our lives are worth more than yours.”

“Working as a white ally is tough, but certainly not impossible.”

Help us develop better allies by participating in a dialogue about Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson.Dr. Dyson is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, an ordained minister, author of 20 books, a writer for the New York Times, and an editor for both The New Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated Ebony.

When: August 29, 2017, noon to 2:00 and August 30, 2017 6:30-8:30

Where: 3412 Crawford Street Parking Lot 9 (Almeda/Crawford and Holman)

RSVP [email protected] or 713-520-8226

CONTRIBUTIONS APPRECIATED

Find the book on Amazon Here: https://www.amazon.com/Tears-We-Cannot-Stop-America/dp/1250135990

Review Blurb:

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.”

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Date:
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Time:
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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