What Truth Sounds Like hardcover w/jacket by Eric Dyson 2018

In 2015, BLM activist Julius Jones confronted presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with an urgent query: "What in your heart has changed that's going to change the direction of this country?" "I don't believe you just change hearts", she protested. "I believe you change laws."  The fraught conflict between conscience and politics - between morality and power - in addressing race hardly began with Clinton. An electrifying and traumatic encounter in the '60s crystallized these furious disputes.  In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf Black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence.  Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry - that the Black folk assembled didn't understand politics, a