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Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
- Tim Wise
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Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what is meant, but, if we are willing to be honest, we also know that none of the four describe something real, something tangible, something true.
- Tim Wise
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In short, and let us be clear on it: race is not a card. It determines whom the dealer is, and who gets dealt.
- Tim Wise
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If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
- Tim Wise
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For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.
- Tim Wise
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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.
- Tim Wise
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There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.
- Tim Wise
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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 political resentments.
- Tim Wise
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Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.
- Tim Wise
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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.
- Tim Wise
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Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.
- Tim Wise
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Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.
- Tim Wise
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Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.
- Tim Wise
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Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.
- Tim Wise
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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
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If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
- Tim Wise
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