Stories by Tim Wise
There are more than two million reported incidents of housing discrimination each year. Here's how the Right justifies housing inequality.
Posted on Jun 7, 2005
Black conservatives, with their politics of self-abuse, have managed to obtain access to the halls of power – at the expense of respect from within the black community.
Posted on Jul 21, 2004
Opponents of affirmative action cite Martin Luther King Jr. in saying students should be judged on "character" rather than "race."
Posted on Nov 25, 2003
A new high school curriculum on racism and intolerance focuses on Europe but refuses to look close to home.
Posted on Jul 2, 2003
Although something of a mixed bag for supporters of affirmative action, the Supreme Court's ruling is a victory within the current political climate.
Posted on Jun 24, 2003
Affirmative action is still needed to combat racism.
Posted on May 5, 2003
In criticizing affirmative action at the University of Michigan, Bush made clear the inability of yet another white person to grasp the magnitude of white privilege.
Posted on Feb 20, 2003
In criticizing affirmative action at the University of Michigan, Bush made clear the inability of yet another white person to grasp the magnitude of white privilege.
Posted on Feb 18, 2003
Nowhere is the tendency to "play the King card" more apparent than in the claim by many contemporary writers and theorists that Martin Luther King's principal goal was "color-blindness."
Posted on Jan 21, 2003
The war on drugs was too busy busting the black and brown in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans, to make a stop uptown, where the white Tulane freshmen were busy filling up two foot bong chambers with pot smoke.
Posted on Sep 3, 2002
Can giving a standardized test to profoundly unstandardized students from unstandardized schools ever be fair? And how can those test results be used to determine college placement?
Posted on Aug 12, 2002
If what we see in Israel is democracy, then what does fascism look like? In a world such as this, where words have lost all meaning, we might as well just burn all the dictionaries.
Posted on May 8, 2002
When white folks rioted over beer at the Olympics, it was laughed off in a "gee, don't they have anything better to do" way. What if blacks or latinos had done the same?
Posted on Feb 25, 2002
Though many Americans don't want to hear it, Martin Luther King Jr. would not have supported our current war or many of the racist policies that have adopted his name.
Posted on Feb 12, 2002
The resurrection of the "heroic cop" image after 9/11 may be perpetuating brutality, misconduct, discrimination and racial profiling in police forces nationwide.
Posted on Jan 7, 2002
Ruthless? Cold-blooded? No regard for human life? To be sure, these statements describe Osama bin Laden. But they also describe far too many of our own allies and military elites.
Posted on Dec 21, 2001
As with all racial profiling, the present incarnation is unjust and irrational, despite calls from many quarters for more profiling under the rubric of "common sense."
Posted on Dec 11, 2001
There are many good alternatives to fighting terrorism. And those who oppose the bombing of Afghanistan are talking about them -- on the street corner, on the Internet, in town hall meetings, but not on Fox News and CNN.
Posted on Nov 20, 2001
Recent comparisons between our war on terrorism and WWII break down quickly, but speak volumes about our national need to justify our unjust, unwise military actions.
Posted on Nov 12, 2001
When warhawks call those of us who question war "naïve," it reminds me of something my Grandma once said: "You can call your ass a turkey, but that doesn't make it Thanksgiving."
Posted on Oct 30, 2001
If an angry white American had plotted the 9-11 attacks, would talk of "Kill the Arabs!" have been replaced with "Kill the Crackers?" Would we bomb the cornfields of "middle America" to take out a few anti-government types?
Posted on Sep 17, 2001
Soon, I will have to tell my young daughter about Tuesday's mass death. Will I also have to explain our retaliation, our infliction of more mass death to show others that our collective national dick is the biggest?
Posted on Sep 13, 2001
A "dissident Jew" reflects on the U.S.'s withdrawl from the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, going back to the roots of Zionism. (Also see
"Dispatch from Durban," by Lillian Galedo.)
Posted on Sep 5, 2001
Last Sunday, yet another story of white suburban crime hit the headlines, and everyone acted amazed. When will whites and the media admit that most killers look like them?
Posted on Aug 14, 2001
In the wake of police brutality scandals like those in Cincinnati and Nashville, cops across the nation are cranking up their propaganda mills to counter the trend of bad press.
Posted on Aug 3, 2001
Seven out of ten whites think that blacks face no inequalities. Yet 50 percent of blacks say they have been discriminated against in the past month. How can whites be so blind?
Posted on Jul 17, 2001
Whites from suburban Chicago are the latest example of a culture that goes to amazing lengths to convince others (and perhaps themselves) that the wish to steer clear of urban blacks isn't the least bit racist.
Posted on Jun 20, 2001
In truth, no people in history have been as dependent on others -- as needy of handouts and charity -- as white folks.
Posted on Jun 12, 2001
When author Tim Wise sent his recent essay "School Shootings and White Denial" to his editors, he unwittingly set off a firestorm of national reaction, controversy and dialogue.
Posted on May 24, 2001
Imagine that the bullet-spraying cop arrested last week in Nashville had been a young black man. How long would it have taken police to drop him in a hail of bullets?
Posted on May 22, 2001
When African Americans rioted to protest police violence in Cincinnati, they were called "terrorists." Meanwhile, white college kids "misbehave" after sports events and drunken binges that cause equal destruction.
Posted on Apr 17, 2001
I said this after Columbine and no one listened so I'll say it again, after the recent shooting in Santee, California: white people live in an utter state of self-delusion.
Posted on Mar 6, 2001
Media pundits, Democratic Party officials, and maybe even Al Gore himself will soon blame election results squarely on the shoulders of the Green Party and Ralph Nader. But state-by-state analysis of the figures shows that Nader did not siphon off enough Gore votes to matter -- and that even if he had, Gore should never have let it get so close.
Posted on Nov 8, 2000
The Pioneer Fund sponsors sociological research arguing there is a genetic basis for racism. Here's one supporter's shocking proof that whites are inferior.
Posted on Nov 6, 2000
Tennessee is set to execute a number of men who are almost certainly innocent of the crimes for which they were condemned to die -- the first of these as soon as January. What would Al Gore say about that?
Posted on Oct 24, 2000
FBI Director Louis Freeh has implemented new training for Bureau recruits, to "teach of the failure of law enforcement to protect citizen's rights," in Nazi Germany. Yet, one hardly need travel thousands of miles away and a half-century back in time to demonstrate the complicity of law enforcement with repression.
Posted on Aug 28, 2000
Statistics tell of the disadvantages of "blackness" or "brownness" but few examine the flipside: namely, the advantages of whiteness.
Posted on Jul 3, 2000
To listen to some white supremacists tell it, whites are no longer in control of America's history, thanks to the rising tide of multiculturalism which has forced us to listen to the perspectives of others. Frankly, we should be so lucky.
Posted on Jun 27, 2000
"Americans have just been told that we must brace for a ratcheting up of interest rates. Why? Well, as Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan explains, the economy is too healthy, unemployment has fallen too low, and wages -- God forbid -- have started to inch upward for too many."
Posted on Jun 8, 2000
