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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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Znet Article Wise: Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena

Znet Article, October, 18 2007 Tim Wise
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Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena

Znet Article Wise: Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena

Znet Article, October, 18 2007 Tim Wise
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Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena

Znet Article Wise: Reflections On The Psychopathology Of Racist Thinking

Znet Article, June, 03 2007 Tim Wise
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Reflections On The Psychopathology Of Racist Thinking

Znet Article Wise: What Kind of Card is Race?

Znet Article, April, 26 2006 Tim Wise
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Recently, I was asked by someone in the audience of one of my speeches, whether or not I believed that racism--though certainly a problem--might also be something conjured up by people of color in situations where the charge was inappropriate. In ...

Znet Article Wise: Chocolate City?

Znet Article, January, 30 2006 Tim Wise
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  If you're looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites about racism are often so difficult in this country, you need only know this: when the subject is race and racism, whites and blacks are often not talking about the same ...

Znet Article Wise: Racism, Free Speech and the College Campus Part 2

Znet Article, December, 30 2005 Tim Wise
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Recently, I published an essay concerning racism on college campuses and the issue of free speech. The commentary was prompted by news that Andrei Chira, a freshman at Bellarmine University, in Louisville, has been wearing a neo-Nazi armband aroun...

Znet Article Wise: Racism, Free Speech, and the College Campus

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 Tim Wise
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As has been the case every year 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. This time the place is Bel...

Znet Article Wise: A God With Whom I am Not Familiar

Znet Article, September, 06 2005 Tim Wise
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This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don't know me. But I know you. I watched you as you held hands with your tablemates at the restaurant where we b...

Znet Article Wise: Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise

Znet Article, September, 02 2005 Tim Wise
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Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise

Znet Article Wise: Faith of the Faithless

Znet Article, August, 03 2005 Tim Wise
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As a child reared in the very buckle of America's Bible belt, I can clearly remember hearing people speak of how Jesus was "in their hearts," and was the cornerstone of their lives. Coming from most, the sincerity with which such proclamations wer...

Znet Article Wise: White Like Me, Interview

Znet Article, January, 14 2005 Tim Wise
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1. Can you tell ZNet, please, what your book, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, is about? What is it trying to communicate? White Like Me is an examination of what it means to be white, particularly, though not solely in t...

Znet Article Wise: The same, only different

Znet Article, May, 13 2004 Tim Wise
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Though I have little faith in his ability to detect (or even define) irony, it would be interesting to know what the President thinks about the decision to reopen the investigation into the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, in 1955. Especiall...

Znet Article Wise: Sex across the Color Line

Znet Article, January, 04 2004 Tim Wise
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This is the story of a real American tragedy. The kind they make movies about. The victim - and let there be no mistake that is the only word that fits here - is Marcus Dixon: a young man who was an 'A' student in high school, a member of the Nat...

Znet Article Wise: Content of Whose Character:

Znet Article, December, 23 2003 Tim Wise
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Content of Whose Character:

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...

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 ...

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...

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