After reading Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson and the New York Times article, “The Bird Watcher, The Incident, and His Feelings on the Woman’s Fate” (see Links on our D2L class site for this article), please post responses to one the following questions. And please respond to at least two posts by other students.

If you’re black, was there something in particular that Dyson (in his book) and Christian Cooper (in the article) discussed that explains how it feels to be black in America?
Dyson and Cooper explain that if we are to make racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or demonized. If you’re not black, what do Dyson and Cooper say that you didn’t know or perhaps now realize you need to know?