Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore… — Tim Wise America Copy Share Image
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such… — Tim Wise Actually Copy Share Image
When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone. — Tim Wise Affect Copy Share Image
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. — Tim Wise Culture Copy Share Image
There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any… — Tim Wise 1950s Copy Share Image
In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who… — Tim Wise Card Copy Share Image
You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in… — Tim Wise Contact Copy Share Image
As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the… — Tim Wise Burning Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no… — Tim Wise About Copy Share Image
Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we… — Tim Wise Being honest Copy Share Image
The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And… — Tim Wise Ability Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise American culture Copy Share Image
Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling… — Tim Wise Always Copy Share Image
If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care,… — Tim Wise Access Copy Share Image
So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new… — Tim Wise America Copy Share Image
If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care,… — Tim Wise Access Copy Share Image
When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in… — Tim Wise Black Copy Share Image
People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong… — Tim Wise Be careful Copy Share Image
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent… — Tim Wise Change Copy Share Image
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native… — Tim Wise Ancestor Copy Share Image
If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people. — Tim Wise Ask Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples.… — Tim Wise Banner Copy Share Image
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues,… — Tim Wise Always Copy Share Image
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had… — Tim Wise Aspect Copy Share Image
I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus'… — Tim Wise Because Copy Share Image
People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who… — Tim Wise Children Copy Share Image
“The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower… — Tim Wise Air Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism. — Tim Wise Hard Copy Share Image
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial… — Tim Wise Acknowledge Copy Share Image
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather… — Tim Wise Because Copy Share Image
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face. — Tim Wise Almost Copy Share Image
I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one… — Tim Wise Color Copy Share Image
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it. — Tim Wise America Copy Share Image
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. — Tim Wise Against Copy Share Image
Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems. — Tim Wise Against Copy Share Image
And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a… — Tim Wise Battle Copy Share Image
Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or… — Tim Wise Activism Copy Share Image
Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal… — Tim Wise Agents Copy Share Image
What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with… — Tim Wise Done Copy Share Image
