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Mr. Dyson, in his booklet (a radically undersized publication which can be read in one sitting), presumes to lecture white folk (his terminology) on their failings--and, of course, with his hand out. This lecturing is crudely masked as a "sermon", but on its face it is a racist enterprise in which he cruelly makes a blood libel against all white Americans. Racism is logically unsupportable, so Mr. Dyson seems to have a problem. For example, Dyson's idea of "whiteness" is odd to say the least. According to Mr. Dyson, whiteness is oppressive to both white folk and black folk. But, what is it? Again, according to the author, "...even though whiteness is not real it is still true." It is a paradox says Mr. Dyson, who then proceeds to bludgeon white folk with it for the remainder of his booklet's diatribe. He never defines the non-real yet true whiteness; that is left for each reader to work out for himself. Whiteness is simply an attack word aimed at white folk: empty of formal meaning, but emotionally fully laden with hatred. Mr. Dyson seems unaware of this failure of critical thinking. One section of Mr. Dyson's booklet seems to have been meant as a SNL skit. Most of the section having to do with reparations--from individual white folk--was a wonderful relief from the tediousness, ahistoricism and anti-intellectualism of Mr. Dyson's booklet. The outlandish combination of falsehoods and demands in this section make for an unexpected, yet welcome fit of laughter. The foregoing is only a brief bitter taste of Mr. Dyson's pseudo-Christian, and racist tract. I have not addressed his: slander of law enforcement, use of mysterious white privilege, slander of President Trump, etc., etc. . . . .