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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, ...

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...

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...

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...

Commentary Wise: Sins of Omission

Commentary, July, 07 2006 Tim Wise
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It seems as though whenever black folks do something wrong, everyone hears about it. If gang violence heats up in America's inner cities, for example, you can bet it'll be front-page news. Unacceptably high dropout rates? Yep, you can read all abo...

Commentary Wise: Chocolate City?

Commentary, January, 28 2006 Tim Wise
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If you're looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites

Commentary Wise: Racism, Free Speech and the College Campus

Commentary, January, 11 2006 Tim Wise
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As has been the case for as long as I can recall, an American college campus is once again embroiled in controversy over the expression of racism in its hallowed halls, and what it may seek to do in response.

Commentary Wise: Not Everyone Felt That Way

Commentary, September, 12 2005 Tim Wise
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When I was a kid, I remember my maternal grandmother defending Richard Nixon for the crimes of Watergate, because, as she put it: "He didn't do anything any worse than what every other President did." Knowing, even at six, that this was hardly a m...

Commentary Wise: "Don't Know Much About (Black) History"

Commentary, July, 25 2005 Tim Wise
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Recently, Philadelphia became the first American city to require its high school students to complete a course in African American history as a condition of graduation. And predictably, in the "City of Brotherly Love," there is already an outcry o...

Commentary Wise: A Double Standard Worth Keeping

Commentary, May, 30 2005 Tim Wise
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As soon as Oklahoma University's baseball coach Larry Cochell was fired recently, for using the n-word during off-camera conversations with two ESPN reporters, I knew instinctively what some were likely to say. Though I am far from psychic, it har...

Commentary Wise: Playing Our Race Card: Reflections on Reverse Discrimination

Commentary, April, 21 2005 Tim Wise
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Perhaps it would do us some good to put things in perspective.

Commentary Wise: Race to Our Credit

Commentary, January, 09 2005 Tim Wise
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Sometimes it can be difficult, having a conversation with those whose political views are so diametrically opposed to one's own.

Commentary Wise: The Color of Deception

Commentary, October, 26 2004 Tim Wise
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"A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is still pulling on its boots."

Commentary Wise: No Such Place as Safe

Commentary, July, 26 2004 Tim Wise
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I think I've figured out what it is I hate about those "racial dialogue" groups that seem to be springing up across the country nowadays.

Commentary Wise: Situational Ethics, Conservative-Style

Commentary, July, 08 2004 Tim Wise
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Conservatives never cease to amaze me.

Commentary Wise: Personal Responsibility is a Two-Way Street:

Commentary, June, 29 2004 Tim Wise
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Perhaps Bill Cosby should have known better.

Commentary Wise: My Life as a Resident Alien

Commentary, June, 13 2004 Tim Wise
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Despite being born in the United States and living here all of my life, I guess I'm still not really an American. For if I was, then surely I would have "felt good" when Ronald Reagan was President, since, I'm told, Reagan made Americans feel good...

Commentary Wise: White Whine: Reflections on the Brain-Rotting Properties of Privilege

Commentary, April, 20 2004 Tim Wise
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To truly understand a nation, a culture, or its people, it helps to know what they take for granted. After all, sometimes the things that go unspoken are more powerful than the spoken word, if for no other reason than the tendency of unspoken assu...

Commentary Wise: A Quite Deliberate Failure: Reflections on the Politics of Crime

Commentary, April, 01 2004 Tim Wise
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Though it is always difficult to predict the outcome of an election in the United States, it is quite a bit easier to make accurate pronouncements about the way in which an election campaign will unfold. No matter the candidates, certain things ar...

Commentary Wise: Of Broken Clocks and Conservatives

Commentary, March, 02 2004 Tim Wise
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There's an old saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Although conservative think tanks can't generally boast a record nearly that impressive, the underlying premise occasionally holds for them as well, so that once in a while they ...

Commentary Wise: Unnatural Selection

Commentary, January, 22 2004 Tim Wise
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For those who speak out against racism, learning to deal with people who disagree with you is a time-consuming process, and a talent that must be cultivated. This was made painfully clear this past week when I received an email claiming that peopl...

Commentary Wise: Content of Whose Character?

Commentary, December, 23 2003 Tim Wise
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One thing can be said for conservatives: they are nothing if not unoriginal.

Commentary Wise: ItÕs the Racism Stupid

Commentary, December, 08 2003 Tim Wise
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Sometimes an argument gets made with such regularity that no matter how silly, it nonetheless requires an answer. Indeed the more often it gets made, the more often it calls for rebuttal, since its repetition indicates someone just isnÕt getting i...

Commentary Wise: It’s the Racism Stupid

Commentary, December, 08 2003 Tim Wise
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Sometimes an argument gets made with such regularity that no matter how silly, it nonetheless requires an answer. Indeed the more often it gets made, the more often it calls for rebuttal, since its repetition indicates someone just isn’t g...

Commentary Wise: Anywhere but Here

Commentary, November, 09 2003 Tim Wise
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Imagine that in Germany, public officials and teachers decided to develop a school curriculum about the horrors of racism and intolerance.

Commentary Wise: Collateral Damage: Poor Whites and the Unintended Consequences of Racial Privilege

Commentary, October, 06 2003 Tim Wise
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A few years ago, a young woman who was an anti-poverty organizer in rural Kentucky asked me how she could infuse her work with an anti-racist analysis.

Commentary Wise: Overclass Blues: Reflections on the Ironies of Privilege

Commentary, September, 21 2003 Tim Wise
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The first word of this articleÕs title does not exist according to the spell check program on my computer and the dictionary on my desk. Underclass? Yes, both sources recognize and can define that term. Yet neither acknowledges that any word with ...

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