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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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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Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.
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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 isn’t straight, anyone who isn’t male, anyone who isn’t white, anyone who isn’t upper middle class knows that stuff doesn’t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isn’t osmosis. And so we act as if it’s this passive thing, but yet that’s not the case.
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It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.
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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 around who actually remember them...
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Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.