More recently, writer Toni Morrison states the inherent conflict of American whiteness bluntly: to “restore whiteness to its former status as a marker of national identity, a number of white Americans are sacrificing themselves.” And in his elegiac Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America, sociologist and pastor Michael Eric Dyson laments the “the politics of whiteness… it’s killing us, and, quiet as it’s kept, it’s killing you too.”
