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White Quotes by Tim Wise
- There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks…
- You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing…
- Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who…
- When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
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