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Commentary Wise: Coloring Crime: Violence, Deviance, And Media Manipulation

Commentary, June, 24 2003 Tim Wise
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Ask the average American to describe the typical drug user or dealer and theyÕll say heÕs a black male, even though blacks make up only thirteen percent of drug users and sixteen percent of dealers. Most dealers and 76 percent of users are white, ...

Znet Article Wise: Snatching Victory From The Jaws Of Defeat

Znet Article, June, 23 2003 Tim Wise
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In the early 1980’s, the Boomtown Rats scored a hit with their song “I Don’t Like Mondays,” in which they told the true story of a young woman who a few years earlier had shot up her San Diego school, and when asked...

Commentary Wise: The Mother of all Racial Preferences:

Commentary, May, 26 2003 Tim Wise
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Ask a fish what water is and youÕll get no answer, and not only because fish lack the capacity to speak. Even if they were capable of vocalizing a reply they would likely have none for such a question. When water surrounds one every minute of ever...

Znet Article Wise: Cleaning Up The Funk

Znet Article, May, 20 2003 Tim Wise
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Thank you very much, to the administration, faculty, assembled guests and parents but mostly to the graduating seniors, who for some totally inexplicable reason have chosen me to give today’s commencement address. I am still convinced ...

Commentary Wise: Inventing Jayson Blair: Reflections on White Privilege and Hypocrisy

Commentary, May, 19 2003 Tim Wise
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If Jayson Blair did not exist, white America would have to create him. The confirmed New York Times plagiarist and all-around journalistic con man, after all, is the perfect foil for those whites who have always needed to find a dark face capable ...

Znet Article Wise: Inventing Jayson Blair

Znet Article, May, 18 2003 Tim Wise
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If Jayson Blair did not exist, white America would have to create him. The confirmed New York Times plagiarist and all-around journalistic con man, after all, is the perfect foil for those whites who have always needed to find a dark face capable ...

Znet Article Wise: Parable of the Bad Samaritan

Znet Article, April, 16 2003 Tim Wise
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It appears as though contributions are pouring in from around the world--especially the U.S. and Great Britain--to help pay for the many surgeries needed by the Iraqi boy being called (in the Western media at least), "little Ali." Putting aside th...

Znet Article Wise: Liberation or Libation?

Znet Article, April, 04 2003 Tim Wise
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I figured it would happen sooner or later. Having written several columns questioning the notion that the current war in Iraq is about "liberation" of that nation's people, it was only a matter of time before I received an email like the one this...

Commentary Wise: So This Is What War Looks Like?

Commentary, April, 03 2003 Tim Wise
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Well, now we know.

Znet Article Wise: So This Is What War Looks Like?

Znet Article, April, 02 2003 Tim Wise
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So This Is What War Looks Like?

Znet Article Wise: Of Lies, Liberation and American Self-Delusion

Znet Article, March, 27 2003 Tim Wise
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Iraqis must think the American definition of liberation a strange one. First, we destroy all of the key government buildings that we can find in a search for Saddam Hussein. Then we relentlessly attack the Iraqi military, which of course count...

Znet Article Wise: The Moral Calculus of Killing

Znet Article, March, 24 2003 Tim Wise
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The Moral Calculus of Killing

Znet Article Wise: Mental Botox

Znet Article, March, 22 2003 Tim Wise
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I remember the first time I ever visited inmates on Tennessee's death row. What struck me about the experience was not so much the solemnity or the pall of pending execution that hung over the place like a threatening storm cloud. Nor was it the i...

Znet Article Wise: No Ribbons, No Flags, No Fireworks

Znet Article, March, 21 2003 Tim Wise
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Dear neighbor, Please spare me the lecture. Likewise, don’t bother asking me why I refuse to tie a yellow ribbon around the tree in my front yard, or put out a flag, or slather my Honda Civic with “Support the Troops” bump...

Commentary Wise: Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush:

Commentary, March, 07 2003 Tim Wise
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Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush:

Znet Article Wise: Whites Swim In Racial Preference

Znet Article, February, 23 2003 Tim Wise
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Ask a fish what water is and you'll get no answer. Even if fish were capable of speech, they would likely have no explanation for the element they swim in every minute of every day of their lives. Water simply is. Fish take it for granted. So to...

Commentary Wise: Race, Sex and Work: Examining White Lies About Black Americans

Commentary, February, 13 2003 Tim Wise
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ÒYou wanna know what the real problem with black people is?Ó

Commentary Wise: Sex, Lies and Stereotypes: White Racism, Black Reality and the Pathology of Prejudice

Commentary, February, 11 2003 Tim Wise
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ÒYou wanna know what the real problem with black people is?Ó

Commentary Wise: Fraud Fit For A King: Israel, Zionism, And The Misuse Of Mlk

Commentary, January, 21 2003 Tim Wise
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Rarely am I considered insufficiently cynical. As someone who does anti-racism work for a living, and thus hears all manner of excuse-making by those who wish desperately to avoid being considered racist, not much surprises me. I expect people to ...

Commentary Wise: White Supremacy Discussion

Commentary, December, 22 2002 Tim Wise
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Recently Tim Wise wrote an articl called soft pedalling White Supremacy. In it, he attacked David Horowitz for promoting Nazi Sympathizers and racists. One of the people mentioned in his article, Jared Taylor, wrote ZNet a response. We thought the...

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