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- Monday, Jul 05, 2010
Commentary It was summer 2004 when most of us first became familiar with Barack Obama... -
- Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Jan 04, 2010
Commentary 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, ... -
- Monday, Sep 14, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Wednesday, Sep 09, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Jul 16, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Monday, May 18, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Mar 18, 2009
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Mar 02, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Thursday, Feb 19, 2009
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Nov 07, 2008
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- Sunday, Sep 14, 2008
Commentary 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... -
- Monday, Aug 25, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Saturday, Jun 21, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Jun 05, 2008
ZNet Article The more things change, the more they stay the same... -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Author and compelling orator Tim Wise explains that ending affirmative action will allow white privilege to persist unchallenged. Wise spoke on the issue at Michigan State University, in a debate with one of the authors of the MCRI. With passion a... -
- Thursday, Oct 18, 2007
ZNet Article Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena ZNet Article Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena -
- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also bene... -
- Sunday, Jun 03, 2007
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- Friday, Jul 07, 2006
Commentary 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... -
- Wednesday, Apr 26, 2006
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Monday, Jan 30, 2006
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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 ... -
- Saturday, Jan 28, 2006
Commentary If you're looking to understand why discussions between blacks and whites -
- Wednesday, Jan 11, 2006
Commentary 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. -
- Friday, Dec 30, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Dec 27, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Monday, Sep 12, 2005
Commentary 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... - All Most Recent Content
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- Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Book Racial privilege shapes the lives of white Americans in every facet of life, from employment and education to housing and criminal justice. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise shows that racism not only burdens people of color, but also bene... - All Recent Books
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- Monday, Sep 14, 2009
ZNet Article 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. -
- Wednesday, Sep 09, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Monday, Mar 02, 2009
ZNet Article 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 ... -
- Friday, Nov 07, 2008
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- Saturday, Jun 21, 2008
ZNet Article 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... -
- Thursday, Jun 05, 2008
ZNet Article The more things change, the more they stay the same... -
- Monday, Jan 30, 2006
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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 ... -
- Friday, Dec 30, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Dec 27, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Tuesday, Sep 06, 2005
ZNet Article 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... -
- Friday, Sep 02, 2005
ZNet Article Of Disasters, Natural and Otherwise - All Featured Wise's Articles
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