{"id":111426,"date":"2017-01-08T07:19:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111426"},"modified":"2017-01-08T07:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:19:53","slug":"tears-we-cannot-stop-a-sermon-to-white-america-by-michael-eric-dyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111426","title":{"rendered":"TEARS WE CANNOT STOP: A Sermon to White America By Michael Eric Dyson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Lozada writes for the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, fellow white guys! It\u2019s about to be a new year. And there\u2019s a few things we think you can do a little bit better in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus began MTV News\u2019s \u201c2017 New Years Resolutions for White Guys,\u201d one of the Internet\u2019s most transcendentally awful experiments in wishful viral-video-making of the past year. In the 88-second clip, various young MTV staffers, spanning multiple ethnicities, proceed to lecture \u201cwhite guys\u201d for their offenses to liberal identity politics, such as mansplaining, suggesting that all lives matter and saying \u201cwoke.\u201d
\nThe video grates, both for its pedantic, generalizing message and because it was obviously created with the expectation of countless shares among knowing lefties. Instead, the mockery and backlash was such that MTV took it down less than 48 hours later.<\/p>\n

I wish they\u2019d kept it up, owned it. Because, if 2016 was the year of rediscovering the political power of the Deplorable White Male, 2017 may become the year of attempting to sway, co-opt, educate, overanalyze or shame that class. Some attempts will backfire. (I\u2019m looking at you, MTV News.) Another, Michael Eric Dyson\u2019s new book, \u201cTears We Cannot Stop,\u201d is more thoughtful yet far more angry, mingling insight, righteousness and harshness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carlos Lozada writes for the Washington Post: \u201cHey, fellow white guys! It\u2019s about to be a new year. And there\u2019s a few things we think you can do a little bit better in 2017.\u201d Thus began MTV News\u2019s \u201c2017 New … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t