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Commentary Wise: WhoÕs Being Na•ve? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass

Commentary, October, 28 2001 Tim Wise
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To hear those who support the current air assault on Afghanistan tell it, those of us who doubt the likely efficacy of such a campaign, and who question its fundamental morality are not only insufficiently patriotic but dangerously na•ve.

Commentary Wise: Who’s Being Naïve? War-Time Realism Through the Looking Glass

Commentary, October, 28 2001 Tim Wise
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To hear those who support the current air assault on Afghanistan tell it, those of us who doubt the likely efficacy of such a campaign, and who question its fundamental morality are not only insufficiently patriotic but dangerously naïve.

Commentary Wise: Some Folks Never Felt Safe: The Truth Behind National Unity

Commentary, October, 08 2001 Tim Wise
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"We stand united," comes the proclamation from America's political leaders and national media. "Americans are pulling together like never before," say still others, in the wake of the horrific attacks of September 11.

Commentary Wise: Reflections on Zionism From a Dissident Jew

Commentary, September, 05 2001 Tim Wise
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So itÕs official. The U.S. has withdrawn from theÊWorld Conference on Racism, being held inÊDurban, South Africa. And thoughÊthe cynical and historically observant might suspect that this decision was merely in keeping withÊour longstanding unwill...

Commentary Wise: A New Round of White Denial

Commentary, August, 23 2001 Tim Wise
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In a time of multiple school and workplace shootings, middle-aged mass murderers, drug-saturated rave parties, and moms who drown their kids in tubs, lakes, or dump them in garbage cans, one question comes to mind. How long willÊsuburban white Ame...

Commentary Wise: See No Evil: Perception and Reality in Black and White

Commentary, August, 02 2001 Tim Wise
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Just a few years ago, a public opinion poll indicated that only 6% of whites in the U.S. believed racism was still a "very serious" problem facing African Americans. While larger percentages believed racism to be somewhat of a problem, only this a...

Commentary Wise: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia

Commentary, July, 09 2001 Tim Wise
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If intellectual gymnastics were an Olympic sport, we white folks would be the team to beat. Especially whites from the suburbs, who go to amazing and tortured lengths to convince others (and perhaps themselves) that their wish to steer clear of bl...

Commentary Wise: Breaking the Cycle of White Dependence: A Call for Majority Self-Sufficiency

Commentary, May, 19 2001 Tim Wise
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I think itÕs called Ôprojection.Õ When someone subconsciously realizes that a particular trait applies to them, and then attempts to locate that trait in others, so as to alleviate the stigma or self-doubt engendered by the trait in question.

Commentary Wise: 15 Dead in Ohio: The Black and the Blue in Cincinnati

Commentary, April, 17 2001 Tim Wise
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Sometimes, folks don't even bother hiding their racism. Take Keith Fangman, President of the Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police. In the wake of this past week's uprising to protest the killing of Tim Thomas and fourteen other black men by his co...

Commentary Wise: Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and ÔOtherÕ Racism

Commentary, February, 12 2001 Tim Wise
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There are few points made about racism that get folks as upset as the oft-heard and repeated maxim by some, that only whites can be racist, because racism is a power relationship, and only whites have institutional power--at least in the United St...

Commentary Wise: Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and ‘Other’ Racism

Commentary, February, 12 2001 Tim Wise
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There are few points made about racism that get folks as upset as the oft-heard and repeated maxim by some, that only whites can be racist, because racism is a power relationship, and only whites have institutional power--at least in the United St...

Commentary Wise: The Truth is Rarely Pleasant

Commentary, January, 18 2001 Tim Wise
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Having been a white man for 32 years, I have learned there are some things white folks aren't supposed to say.For example, we aren't supposed to acknowledge that we have received, and continue to receive substantial privileges, simply because of s...

Commentary Wise: White Christmas?

Commentary, December, 21 2000 Tim Wise
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Well it's that time of year again. Time for all good Americans to focus on what really matters. Not family, community, or world peace, but that national sacrament of late-stage capitalism known as Holiday shopping. Whether you do it online, or dra...

Commentary Wise: Of Monsters and Vampires: People Who Kill People (and the People Who Kill Them)

Commentary, December, 04 2000 Tim Wise
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My mother lied to me. She told me when I was a boy, so as to allay my fears to the contrary, that there were no such things as vampires; that there were not, in real life, those whose lust for human blood drove their every waking moment. And this ...

Commentary Wise: No More Mister Fall Guy

Commentary, November, 09 2000 Tim Wise
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Well, the long knives are out. Media pundits, Democratic Party officials, and I would suspect Al Gore himself before long, have or will soon begin to do the predictable: search out a scapegoat for why the Presidential election turned out the way i...

Commentary Wise: Getting Serious About White Deviance

Commentary, November, 03 2000 Tim Wise
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To Whom It May Concern: With great excitement, I recently discovered your organization's work for the betterment of mankind, through the applied science of racial research. As someone who has been investigating the disproportionately pathological...

Commentary Wise: Freeh's Blind Mice: A Critical Look at "Tolerance Training," FBI Style

Commentary, September, 24 2000 Tim Wise
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That I'm no Biblical scholar is an understatement of monumental proportions. And yet, recently I found myself--for reasons I'll explain shortly--thinking of the following verse from the book of Matthew, if memory serves:

Commentary Wise: Gore-Vey!: Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility, and the Politics of Race in America

Commentary, August, 29 2000 Tim Wise
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I am a Jew. And according to what others of my faith tradition tell me, I should be beaming with pride at the fact that Al Gore--a Southern Baptist whose denominational leaders once said God didn't answer the prayers of folks like me--has picked a...

Commentary Wise: Bill of Whites: Historical Memory Through the Racial Looking Glass

Commentary, July, 24 2000 Tim Wise
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In 1992, white supremacist Jared Taylor lamented the ostensibly growing influence of people of color in the U.S. when he wrote:"The old, standard history united Americans...It emphasized one point of view and ignored others. It was history about w...

Commentary Wise: Membership Has It's Privileges: Thoughts on Acknowledging and Challenging Whiteness

Commentary, June, 22 2000 Tim Wise
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Being white means never having to think about it. James Baldwin said that many years ago, and it's perhaps the truest thing ever said about race in America. That's why I get looks of bewilderment whenever I ask, as I do when lecturing to a mostly ...

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