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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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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Many times people will come through the door with good intentions but may not be willing to put in the work. They just want to see some results right away.
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Stops at crucial times. That's what we need to win big games.
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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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We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.
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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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Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
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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.
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So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.
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And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.