1195 Tim Wise is on FIRE

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Pete Dominick

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, “A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,” is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators. He has spent the past 25 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the nation. He has also lectured internationally in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, law enforcement and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions.

Wise’s antiracism work traces back to his days as a college activist in the 1980s, fighting for divestment from (and economic sanctions against) apartheid South Africa. After graduation, he threw himself into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From there, he became a community organizer in New Orleans’ public housing, and a policy analyst for a children’s advocacy group focused on combatting poverty and economic inequity. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Smith College School of Social Work, in Northampton, MA., and from 1999-2003 was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, TN.

Wise is the author of seven books, including his highly-acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, as well as Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, and Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America. His forthcoming book, White LIES Matter: Race, Crime and the Politics of Fear in America, will be released in 2018. His essays have appeared on Alternet, Salon, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Black Commentator, BK Nation, Z Magazine and The Root, which recently named Wise one of the “8 Wokest White People We Know.”

Wise has been featured in several documentaries, including “The Great White Hoax: Donald Trump and the Politics of Race and Class in America,” and “White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America,” both from the Media Education Foundation. He also appeared alongside legendary scholar and activist, Angela Davis, in the 2011 documentary, “Vocabulary of Change.” In this public dialogue between the two activists, Davis and Wise discussed the connections between issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and militarism, as well as inter-generational movement building and the prospects for social change. Wise is also one of five persons—including President Barack Obama—interviewed for a video exhibition on race relations in America, featured at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC. Additionally, his media presence includes dozens of appearances on CNN, MSNBC and NPR, feature interviews on ABC’s 20/20 and CBS’s 48 Hours, as well as videos posted on YouTube, Facebook and other social media platforms that have received over 20 million views. His podcast, “Speak Out with Tim Wise,” launched this fall and features weekly interviews with activists, scholars and artists about movement building and strategies for social change.

Wise graduated from Tulane University in 1990 and received antiracism training from the People’s Institute for Survival and

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0:00.0	Hello there. I'm sorry the show has been posted late today, but I am in Orlando where I'm going to be working with the Florida Education Association, giving a speech tonight, moderating a panel tomorrow with some of the most influential union leaders in the country. Very excited for that. Hosted the hangout last night and so up a little bit late today
0:23.0	first just so sorry for those who couldn't get into the hangout last night i think we had like
0:27.6	70 people there or something huge crowds massive crowds but my computer here in the hotel room
0:33.5	was frozen and i could just see there were five or six or seven people in the waiting room.
0:38.7	And I'm very sorry to Latoya, Karen, and Megan, and Drew and anybody else who was stuck in there.
0:44.2	It was agonizing.
0:45.2	I clicked a billion times.
0:46.7	It just would not let me, wouldn't let people in.
0:50.2	And so great suggestion by Scott Bennett from now on the hangouts will all have a co-host
0:55.4	and that person can not only help zap people's mics that are on but make sure everybody gets
1:00.6	in and that there's no problems so I will fix it and I am sorry about that but I hope to see
1:06.3	you at next week's hangout if not sooner everybody who is stuck in there and I hope to see you at next week's hangout if not sooner everybody who is stuck in there and i hope to see you at next week's
1:12.8	hang out if not sooner everybody i have a great conversation with tim wise today really is one of
1:19.9	the best of the best and i'm going to jump right to it no time or ability really to produce the
1:25.6	new segment from here but i will say yesterday was a day,
1:28.8	huh? We found out that Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor in North Carolina,
1:34.7	had admitted to being a black Nazi, referred to himself, as that on a porn site of all things.
1:41.8	Oh, and there's so much more to that. Then we learned to take a little
1:45.1	heat off of Mark Robinson that a 30-year-old reporter, a well-known political reporter and
1:50.3	influential reporter, Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine, was apparently having some kind of
1:55.7	an affair with RFK Jr. Got to be a tough day to be Cheryl Hines, RFK Jr.'s wife, who found out that her husband's having an affair and he's being investigated for chopping the head off of a whale on a beach with a chainsaw. It is hard to believe that this is the world that we live in, but it is, and we're here together to remind each other of what is good and what is real. We did a lot of that at last night's hangout.
2:17.6	And I've got a great conversation doing more of that coming your way right now.
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