Racism 2.0 and the Burden of Blackness in the Age of Obama
Section from a longer 2008 speech, 10 days after the presidential election, in which I discuss how racism of a 2.0 variety — which I explain in the clip — may be in full effect despite the election of...
View ArticleInsights and Outbursts – Volume 2
Another collection of short sound clips from longer speeches, each one focused on a particular theme or sub-topic. For full descriptions of the clips, click below the audio player, where it says “Read...
View ArticleTim Wise on CNN Headline News to Discuss Race and Post-Election America 11/11/12
Tim Wise on CNN Headline News Weekend Express with Natasha Curry, November 11, 2012
View ArticleTim Wise on White Anxiety and The Future of Multiracial Democracy (GRIT TV),...
Here’s an extended discussion of racism, white anxiety, institutional power and the future of multiracial democracy, from GRIT TV with Laura Flanders. This interview was conducted on November 16, 2012...
View ArticleInterview With Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (GRIID), 1/31/13
Here is my recent interview in Grand Rapids, MI, with Jeff Smith of Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (GRIID). In this 37 minute discussion, we discuss the difference between White...
View ArticleTim Wise at the University of San Francisco – February 26, 2013
My talk at USF, 2.26.13
View ArticleBullying Pulpit: Racism, Barack Obama and the Selective Call for Personal...
Sometimes, white privilege isn’t about stuff. It’s not always about better opportunities, or more money, or even greater access to those things than people of color. Sometimes, white privilege is as...
View ArticlePhillip Agnew of Dream Defenders Gives the Speech He Was Kept from Giving at...
This is so much better, and more important, and more honest than anything said at the actual march this week, John Lewis excepted, perhaps; but I think even Lewis would agree, this is special, and...
View ArticleHealth Care, Government Shutdown and the Evil of Conservatism
I really can’t figure out what is so hard about this. For Republicans to shut down the government — to cause real pain to hundreds of thousands of families whose members work for various government...
View ArticleReeking City on a Dung Heap: Donald Trump’s Cynical Worldview and Its Threat...
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they see the world and others in it. Those who view the world and its inhabitants as basically good, and who remain relatively hopeful about the better...
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