True, but Not Real

I don’t know remember who, but someone recommended I read Michael Eric Dyson’s book Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. Dyson is an African American, ordained Baptist, professor, essayist, political commentator, and author. I read his book in the NYRB series on the seven deadlies, but I had not read this book.

The cadence, no surprise, is se…