Tim Wise
Tim Wise
Timothy Jacob "Tim" Wiseis an American anti-racism activist and writer. Since 1995, he has given speeches at over 600 college campuses across the U.S. He has trained teachers, corporate employees, non-profit organizations and law enforcement officers in methods for addressing and dismantling racism in their institutions...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth4 October 1968
CountryUnited States of America
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To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
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Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.
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If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
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For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.
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Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.
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They never lower the tax rate sufficiently to get rid of the windfall profit that falls to the government.
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Stops at crucial times. That's what we need to win big games.
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I think we can be a dangerous team.
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If your New Year's resolution is to get in shape, that decision should be about a lifestyle change, not just a pants size change.
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The dominant group is damaged even as it receives huge benefits. You pay for the privilege and the cost is enormous.
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Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well.
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The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities.
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People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.
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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.