Tim Wise Quotes

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• Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially…
• Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based…
• If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
• 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…
• Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.
• Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a…
• Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
• Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.
• For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let…
• Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
• Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
• In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.
• Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the…
• 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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