The Dangers of Colorblind Post-Racialism
A brief snippet of my October 6 speech in Detroit, for the Michigan Roundtable:
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News Roundup — Bits and Bytes from the Past Few Days
Once again, I’ve fallen behind on posting (and comment approval — sorry about that), but am trying to catch up and post a bunch this coming week, along with a few new essays. In the past week or so there have been several interesting stories and/or articles, bouncing around the web, that touch on race. [...]
Your House is on Ground Zero (and Quite Without Permission)
In all the rancor over whether or not one group of Muslims should be allowed to build a cultural center and worship space near the site of the 9/11 attacks — which were committed by a separate and totally unrelated group of Muslims — there is one thing above all else that no one appears [...]
Faux-pression: Racism and the Cult of White Victimhood
To hear conservatives tell it, there’s a one-sided race war going on in America, and white folks are the targets. From President Obama’s secret plan to use health care reform as a way to procure backdoor “reparations” for slavery, to his equally secret plan to wreck the economy as a way to pay white people [...]
Black Power’s Gonna Git You Sucka: Right-Wing Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Modern Racism
Prominent white conservatives are angry about racism. Forget all that talk about a post-racial society. They know better than to believe in such a thing, and they’re hopping mad. What is it that woke them up finally, after all these years of denial, during which they insisted that racism was a thing of the past? [...]
“Colorblind” on CSPAN’s BookTV, San Francisco, 6/23/10
Author Tim Wise debates the racial meaning, if any, of the election of Barack Obama. He suggests that American society may be farther away from racial equity than many would think. The book launch event in San Francisco was held at the publisher’s book store, City Lights. Watch full video
Tim Wise at Oakwood University, Huntsville, AL., 2/1/10
Open Your Mind Lecture Series – Oakwood University – Tim Wise spoke February 1, 2010 in Moran Hall.
MLK Day Presentation, 2010 – Fountain Baptist Church, Summit, NJ
Tim Wise delivers a Keynote address for MLK Day, January, 2010 at Fountain Baptist Church, Summit New Jersey. Listen to the speech
