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Wise: A New Round of White Denial
Aug 23, 2001
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 America get
Weisbrot: Has Globalization Helped the Poor?
Aug 06, 2001
It has become increasingly fashionable for our government officials and their friends to promote Washington's global agenda as a helping hand to the world's poor. "If one is concerned about the developing countries, both history and recent studies would s
Wise: See No Evil: Perception and Reality in Black and White
Aug 02, 2001
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 anemic sh
Wise: Fear and Loathing in Suburbia
Jul 09, 2001
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 blacks in
Weisbrot: Don't Cry for the IMF, Argentina
May 29, 2001
How many times can the most powerful financial institution in the world -- the International Monetary Fund -- make the same mistake? The answer seems to be: as many times as it wants to. As Argentina teeters on the brink of defaulting on its $150 billion
Wise: Breaking the Cycle of White Dependence: A Call for Majority Self-Sufficiency
May 19, 2001
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.
Weisbrot: Bob Kerrey's Nightmare Tells the Story of Vietnam
May 07, 2001
Some people are wondering why the New York Times and CBS' 60 minutes II would spend two and a half years investigating war crimes allegedly committed by former Senator Bob Kerrey 32 years ago in Vietnam. But this is journalism at its best: it is forcing p
Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines
Apr 22, 2001
The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it is pure,
Wise: 15 Dead in Ohio: The Black and the Blue in Cincinnati
Apr 17, 2001
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 colleagues
Weisbrot: Beyond Tax Relief for the Prosperous Few
Feb 27, 2001
The political success of the Bush Administration's tax cut strategy will depend on how much they can deceive people as to who gets what. Most Americans, no matter how much they hate paying taxes, do not believe that the richest people should be first in l
Weisbrot: Can Haitian Democracy Survive?
Feb 17, 2001
As President Jean-Bertrand Aristide takes the reins of power in Haiti for the third time in ten years, a debate over his presidency is taking place in US foreign policy circles and the press. The discussion centers around whether Aristide is "fully commit
Wise: Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and ÔOtherÕ Racism
Feb 12, 2001
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 States.
Wise: Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and ‘Other’ Racism
Feb 12, 2001
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 States.
Wise: The Truth is Rarely Pleasant
Jan 18, 2001
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 skin colo
Wise: White Christmas?
Dec 21, 2000
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 drag yourse
Wise: Of Monsters and Vampires: People Who Kill People (and the People Who Kill Them)
Dec 04, 2000
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 was a li
Wise: No More Mister Fall Guy
Nov 09, 2000
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 it did. W
Weisbrot: Still Hasn't Found What He's Looking For
Nov 06, 2000
Star power had boosted the movement to cancel the debt of the world's poorest countries, even if there is still little to show for its efforts. At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Prague last month, the most interesting speaker w
Wise: Getting Serious About White Deviance
Nov 03, 2000
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 tendenc
Aug 30, 2001
Just when you thought the debate over national budget and economic policy couldn't get any more confusing or silly, the "lockbox" is back. Big time. The Democratic National Committee is running TV ads asserting that "the Bush budget raids the Medicare tru