Resurrecting Apartheid: White Police and Politicians are Waging War on Black...
It seems like no exaggeration to suggest that at this moment, a half-century after the greatest victories of the civil rights movement, America is drifting backwards towards apartheid. It’s not a word...
View ArticleFar More Than Anecdote: Quantifying Racism and White Privilege in the...
“Personal anecdotes don’t prove anything. The justice system isn’t racist. Black people are arrested more often because they commit more crime. Period. End of story.” So read the message in my inbox...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need Nice, We Need Justice: Racism and the Moral Blindness of White...
This past week, Chris Rock noted in an interview that in his estimation, America is producing the nicest white people in its history. Perhaps. But if so, this only suggests the pitiable limits of...
View ArticleTim Wise on the #ZoWhat!? Show – Ferguson, White Supremacy and Racism in...
My appearance via Skype on the ZoWhat!? Show, December 8, 2014 to discuss racism and white privilege post-Ferguson…
View ArticleTim Wise on the Rock Newman Show – Race and Racism in America 12/10/14
Tim Wise on the Rock Newman Show (Washington DC, WHUT/PBS), December 10, 2014
View ArticleTim Wise at Portland Community College – 1/29/15 –“Ferguson and Beyond:...
Video of the first of two presentations I made at Portland Community College, 1/29/15
View ArticleThe Crime of Innocence: White Denial, Black Rebellion and the Cost of...
Though perhaps overused, there are few statements that so thoroughly burrow to the heart of the nation’s racial condition as the following, written fifty-three years ago by James Baldwin: …this is the...
View ArticleWhite Denial: America’s Persistent and Increasingly Dangerous Pastime
This essay was written originally for CNN.com and can be found here. ______ There’s an old saying that it’s hard to know what you don’t know, the premise being that when you’re ignorant about...
View ArticleCriticism is Not Hatred, Deference is Not Love: Reflections on Policing and...
At the risk of sounding preposterously trite, I love my daughters. I love them the same way my parents loved me, I suspect, and their parents loved them: unconditionally and forever. That said, I also...
View ArticleInjustice is Not a Glitch, It’s a Feature: Reflections on Philando Castile...
If, as the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, then hoping against hope that this time an officer who shot a black man in cold blood would...
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