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Commentary Wise: Resurrecting Mandingo

Commentary, August, 06 2003 Tim Wise
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When it comes to creativity, you really have to hand it to racists. Indeed, I have always been truly amazed by the twisted logic such folks can muster in order to rationalize their prejudices.

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, ...

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...

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 ...

Commentary Wise: So This Is What War Looks Like?

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

Commentary Wise: Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush:

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

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...

Commentary Wise: Making Nice With Racists: David Horowitz and The Soft Pedaling Of White Supremacy

Commentary, December, 18 2002 Tim Wise
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IÕm not sure who said it first, but whatever the case, it bears repeating: there are plenty of assholes on both the right and left of the political spectrum, and David Horowitz has the distinction of having been both in the course of one lifetime....

Commentary Wise: Selling Sloppy Statistics

Commentary, December, 09 2002 Tim Wise
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So the Supreme Court has announced it will hear the long-simmering affirmative action case from the University of Michigan law school, in which white plaintiffs sued, claiming to have been denied admission even though they had grades and test scor...

Commentary Wise: Not-So-Little White Lies: Education and the Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism

Commentary, November, 28 2002 Tim Wise
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Cherished myths die hard, especially when those myths serve the interests of the more powerful members of a society at the expense of the less powerful. For generations, slaveowners ignored their chattelsÕ humanity, to say nothing of their desire ...

Commentary Wise: Tony Soprano, Christopher Columbus and the Irony of Ethnic Stereotypes

Commentary, October, 17 2002 Tim Wise
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When two Italian American organizations criticized New YorkÕs Mayor for inviting Sopranos cast members to march in the cityÕs Columbus Day parade--an annual occasion for demonstrations of Italian pride since Columbus was Genoese--I found myself in...

Commentary Wise: Con-fusion Ethic: How Whites Use Asians to Further Anti-Black Racism

Commentary, October, 07 2002 Tim Wise
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It happened again, for what seems like the millionth time. Once again, in response to something I said about ongoing racism in the United States, someone (a white male, naturally) pulled out the all-too-common conservative race card (oh yes, they ...

Commentary Wise: ÒFailing the Test of Fairness: Institutional Racism and the SATÓ

Commentary, August, 15 2002 Tim Wise
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Ever noticed how expensive restaurants go out of their way to fill the air of their bathrooms with the refreshing scents of a pine forest after a gentle rain? Hoping to cover up the smells that would otherwise predominate in such an environment, t...

Commentary Wise: “Failing the Test of Fairness: Institutional Racism and the SAT”

Commentary, August, 15 2002 Tim Wise
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Ever noticed how expensive restaurants go out of their way to fill the air of their bathrooms with the refreshing scents of a pine forest after a gentle rain? Hoping to cover up the smells that would otherwise predominate in such an environment, t...

Commentary Wise: Honky Wanna Cracker?
A Look at the Myth of Reverse Racism

Commentary, June, 30 2002 Tim Wise
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Recently, when speaking to a group of high school students, I was asked why I only seemed to be concerned about white racism towards people of color. We had been discussing racial slurs, and a number of white students wondered aloud why I didn't g...

Commentary Wise: Defining Democracy Down

Commentary, May, 16 2002 Tim Wise
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WebsterÕs New World Dictionary defines democracy as, among other things, Òthe principle of equality of rights, opportunity and treatment, or the practice of this principle.Ó Keep this in mind, as weÕll be coming back to it shortly.

Commentary Wise: Anti-Semitism, Real and Imagined

Commentary, May, 02 2002 Tim Wise
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Watching former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak to Congress a few weeks ago, I must admit, I was almost sucked in. No, not by his distorted version of reality in the Occupied Territories, nor by his opportunistic and transparently ...

Commentary Wise: Selling the Police: Reflections on Heroism and Hype in America

Commentary, February, 06 2002 Tim Wise
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An e-mail arrives in my inbox, recommending a website that seeks to explain--one might say rationalize--the mutiple killings of black men by Cincinnati police over the past few years. Its sender, who feels I should "get my facts straight," takes i...

Commentary Wise: Rationalizing Racism: Panic And Profiling After 9/11

Commentary, January, 16 2002 Tim Wise
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Random security checks. ThatÕs what theyÕre called anyway: those extra bag searches and body scans being done at airports across the U.S., presumably to deter a new round of terrorist attacks. On each flight, a handful of passengers are pulled asi...

Commentary Wise: Playing the World War Two Card: Nostalgia in the Crusade Against Terrorism

Commentary, December, 16 2001 Tim Wise
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Traveling through airports, as I often do, can prove to be quite an educational experience. Therein, one can engage in people watching, examine the culinary habits of corporate types and tourists, and occasionally gain insight into the mindset of ...

Commentary Wise: Holding Terrorists Accountable? It Depends on the Color and the Cause...

Commentary, November, 04 2001 Tim Wise
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Members of his terrorist organization and network have killed Americans, on American soil. Those inspired by his message have engaged in a mass atrocity: blowing innocent people out of their offices as the building where they worked crumbled to th...

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...

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