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Znet Article Wise: Terrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness

Znet Article, April, 18 2013 Tim Wise
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A lesson about race, about whiteness, and specifically, about white privilege

Commentary Wise: Your House Is On Ground Zero (And Quite Without Permission)

Commentary, September, 07 2010 Tim Wise
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In all the rancor over whether or not one group of Muslims should be allowed to build a cultural center and worship space near the site of the 9/11 attacks -- which were committed by a separate and totally unrelated group of Muslims --there is one...

Commentary Wise: Colorblind Ambition: The Rise of Post Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

Commentary, July, 05 2010 Tim Wise
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It was summer 2004 when most of us first became familiar with Barack Obama...

Commentary Wise: Pardon You: Racism, Reparations and the Politics of Blame (as Explained by Henry Louis Gates Jr.)

Commentary, May, 12 2010 Tim Wise
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As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular "hook" upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release. In these moments, it is often best to wait, to hold on to the material you find so compelling, sec...

Commentary Wise: On Santa and Other Harmless Fibs: Childhood, Aging and the Maintenance of Hope

Commentary, January, 04 2010 Tim Wise
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This Christmas Eve, I stood guard, anxiously surveying the narrow border between childhood innocence and the complex wisdom of messy adulthood. Little had I realized before now, how perilously close to one another are these two geographic spaces, ...

Znet Article Wise: Tim Wise on Racism 2.0

Znet Article, September, 14 2009 Tim Wise
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Discussing his new book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, Wise reflects on what he calls Racism 2.0—a new brand of white supremacy that operates under the guise of post-racialism.

Znet Article Wise: The Afrikaner Party Draws First Blood: Van Jones, Barack Obama And The Audacity Of Capitulation

Znet Article, September, 09 2009 Tim Wise
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Van Jones, special advisor to the President's Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned from the administration. To be honest, he was forced out. Oh, perhaps not directly, but if not, then by the stunning silence of his employer. An employer ...

Znet Article Wise: Racism 2.0

Znet Article, July, 16 2009 Tim Wise
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On the one hand, racism is so deeply embedded in the history and structure of the United States, that it shouldn't be particularly surprising when a story emerges, indicating that indeed, said racism has bubbled to the surface yet again.

Znet Article Wise: Hey Dude, Where's My Privilege? Race and Lawbreaking in Black and White

Znet Article, May, 18 2009 Tim Wise
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Imagine that a group of black youth were to descend upon a college town, take to an open field and proceed to smoke pot--lots of it--just as they had announced they would, at the very time they had promised to be there. Thousands of them, lighting...

Commentary Wise: The Myth Of White Victimhood

Commentary, May, 06 2009 Tim Wise
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As a general rule, one should regard with a mountain of salt anything to be found on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. Committed to the promotion of right-wing economics and social policy, and unburdened by such mundane requirements a...

Znet Article Wise: When Exceptions Prove the Rule: Poverty, Whiteness and Privilege

Znet Article, March, 18 2009 Tim Wise
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As someone who writes regularly on the subject of white privilege, I am often electronically attacked by those who insist that the very notion of such a thing is a mere figment of my imagination: well, mine, and that of all the other "race hustler...

Znet Article Wise: Color-Blind, Power-Oblivious: Eric Holder and the Whitewashing of Racism

Znet Article, March, 02 2009 Tim Wise
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It was all too predictable that Attorney General Eric Holder would be attacked for his recent remarks about race in America. To suggest that the nation is still haunted by the specter of racism is unacceptable it seems, especially since, with the ...

Commentary Wise: Sorry for the Inconvenience

Commentary, February, 19 2009 Tim Wise
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Imagine if you will a 40 year old black male, coming through security at Boston's Logan airport. He's looking a bit younger than his middle-aged self, due in large measure to the clothes he's wearing: a black hoodie, jeans and sneakers. These seem...

Znet Article Wise: Some Cyanide to Go With That Whine? Obama's Victory and the Rage of the Barbiturate Left

Znet Article, November, 26 2008 Tim Wise
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My political entry into the left (and by this I mean the real left, beyond the Democratic Party) came a little more than twenty years ago in New Orleans, when, as a college student I became involved in the fight against U.S. intervention in Centra...

Znet Article Wise: Good, and Now Back To Work

Znet Article, November, 07 2008 Tim Wise
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What now...

Commentary Wise: This is Your Nation on White Privilege

Commentary, September, 14 2008 Tim Wise
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White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every fami...

Znet Article Wise: Exchange With David Horowitz on Racism

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Tim Wise
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In September, 2000, Tim Wise, ZNet commentator, wrote an article called ‘Gore-Vey’, about Lieberman’s Vice-Presidential candidacy with Al Gore and the Democratic Party. David Horowitz, a prominent conservative, called Wise a ‘self-hating Jew’, and...

Znet Article Wise: The Ugly Side of Disaster

Znet Article, June, 21 2008 Tim Wise
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This week, as Iowans and some in Illinois watched flood waters rise ever higher, Limbaugh took to the air to contrast these supposedly good and decent people who have joined forces to help each other, with the presumably evil, lazy and violent fol...

Znet Article Wise: America's Racial Litmus Test: Farrakhan is not the Problem

Znet Article, June, 05 2008 Tim Wise
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The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Video Wise: Vote NO on MCRI - Michigan Civil Rights Initiative

Video, October, 23 2007 Tim Wise
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Author and compelling orator Tim Wise explains that ending affirmative action will allow white privilege to persist unchallenged. Wise spoke on the issue at Michigan State University, in a debate with one of the authors of the MCRI. With passion a...

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