In his review of Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson, Patrick Phillips, a professor of English at Drew University, writes of this book: “I can only hope that others will read and be changed by this book.  It ends with a desperate plea for white Americans to rise up in defense of, and in solidarity with, our African-American brothers and sisters.  Dyson, an ordained Baptist minister writes: “What I need to say, can…