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CNN was slammed for allowing airtime to an “anti-racism” activist who declared that white children “don’t deserve innocence.” Activist and author Tim Wise gave a bigoted lesson to CNN viewers this week on the guilt of “white privilege” and how white parents can properly be an ally of “anti-racists.” ... “One of my children’s teachers sent all parents a letter yesterday. And it was a link to this article,” co-host Poppy Harlow said on “CNN Newsroom,” referring to an article about discussing white privilege with the young. “When should parents do this with their kids and how?” “Well you know,...

This election is about the kind of people we are and the nation we aspire to be Ever since Donald Trump was elected, many have insisted that the vulgar racism upon which he bases so much of his appeal is “unprecedented,” and “abnormal.” And sure enough, there are things about the way he deploys racial, ethnic, and cultural hostilities that are new, even in the long and disturbing pantheon of American politics. For instance, referring to some among a crowd of white supremacists as “very fine people” — as Duke did after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville —...

To celebrate a “Decade of Dialogue” in its annual diversity conference, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences invited a straight white man to give the keynote lecture. But not just any straight white man. Tim Wise, an “anti-racism writer, educator and activist,” has denigrated Christians as “Jeezoids” and fascists and called Pope Francis evil. He has tweeted that “people who believe in a God of hell/damnation deserve to be mocked viciously and run out of the public square.” Those who base their morality on the Hebrew Scriptures “deserve to be locked up,” he said in 2015, claiming to be...

Tim Wise is a white “antiracist” and crusader for “social justice.”Recently, in an interview that he gave to Salon, Wise brought his “expertise” on race to bear upon the Trump phenomenon. Donald Trump, he claims, exploited the “market for white resentment [.]”Trump’s supporters, Wise assures us, are “crazy, bigoted, misogynistic” and “racist.” Moreover, they suffer from a “fragile masculinity” that’s threatened by the prospect of “pluralism,” of having to “share space” with those who aren’t white, Christian, heterosexual men.  To these folks, Wise bluntly states, “there’s a part of me that wants to say, ‘Fuck you.’”  He admits to wanting...

Columnist and playwright Jim Grimsley penned an editorial last week in the Los Angeles Times that accused white people--all white people--of being racist. Grimsley, who is white and grew up in Georgia at the tail-end of the Jim Crow era, railed against the cluelessness of white America on the issue of race. Even white people who consider themselves enlightened on racial issues, he argues, are often unaware of the racism that lurks within their own hearts. "...I have found that black people are all too aware that progress on racial issues has hardly moved forward at all, while white people...

“Do you think we’re ever going to have a real conversation about race in this country?” MSNBC guest host Joy-Ann Reid asked her guest at the conclusion of one of the most self-serving and dishonest segments on the subject of race in the United States yet broadcast on her network. Reid’s cable news home has taken the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the civil rights movement’s march on Washington D.C. and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to, ironically, set race relations back as far as they can. In the name of furthering...

On Saturday night, CNN’s Don Lemon delivered a response to the controversy surrounding his agreement with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly‘s diagnosis of the black community’s ills. In the spirit of equality, Lemon followed up that segment by hosting anti-racism educator Tim Wise, and his “Five Tips For White People to Improve Race Relations, or Improve Their Conditions.” Wise’s advice to “white folks” is a true study in contrasts between what is expected of black people, and what is expected of white people even by anti-racism activists. Lemon took considerable criticism for his own five point plan, which included: 1)...

If you don’t know who Tim Wise is, consider yourself lucky. I discovered Wise when I was forced to read his book, White Like Me, for an introductory sociology class. (The book is required reading for college classes across the country.)

Seriously. I mean I was unfamiliar with you prior to Nov 4th and I can see why. This screed brought my gaze in your undeserving direction, but then I went on to read more of your “work” and it was clear why I’d never wasted my time with you before. As if your barely literate fit above wasn’t enough to convince a reasonable person you can’t write and have nothing to say(that hasn’t been said better by better a thousand time before, anyway) there’s the rest of your scribblings to look upon for further confirmation.Confirmation you’re an idiot, Timmy.

<p>For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink.</p> <p>And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor.</p> <p>You need to drink up.</p> <p>And quickly.</p> <p>And heavily.</p>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ99MSr4FN0

If you can stomach it, check out this rant at the Daily Kos. Here’s the opening: For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink. And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor. Whatever the case, and whatever your economic station, know this… You need to drink up. And quickly. And heavily. Because your time is limited. Real damned limited. So party while you can, but mind the increasingly loud clock ticking away in the corners of your consciousness. The...

<p>For all y’all rich folks, enjoy that champagne, or whatever fancy ass Scotch you drink.</p> <p>And for y’all a bit lower on the economic scale, enjoy your Pabst Blue Ribbon, or whatever shitty ass beer you favor.</p> <p>You need to drink up.</p> <p>And quickly.</p> <p>And heavily.</p>

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help. White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay. White privilege is when...