Episode 911 with Anti Racist Educator and Writer Tim Wise
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
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 my friends, welcome to today's episode of Stand Up where every day you'll find me talking to the smartest people I can find and more. |
| 0:11.0 | Trying to learn about all the issues that matter to you, your family, your community, your country, and your planet. |
| 0:18.0 | Today I've got great Tim Wise back joining me, having talked to him in about a month since before I left for my trip. |
| 0:25.0 | It's an amazing conversation as always we cover a lot of ground on our almost 45 minute conversation and if you want to jump to it, it begins at about 5 minutes in here. |
| 0:35.0 | Also just want to mention that at the top here I'll be performing in Iowa City on Thursday next week. |
| 0:41.0 | So come on out to that show tickets in the show links at the James Theatre. |
| 0:46.0 | My friend Mark Nolte invited me out producing this very excited about that. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh and I just appeared on our friend Maddie Carlson's podcast. What am I making? He interviewed me about my trip to Australia, my daughter moving out to go to college and more. |
| 1:00.0 | Check out Matt's sub stack and podcast. What am I making dot sub stack dot com. |
| 1:06.0 | But before that I do have to get to some of the big news stories of the day usually to try to do a bit of a recap on Monday through Thursday's show. |
| 1:16.0 | And on Tuesday, the 952nd day of the Biden administration, they named the first head medicines that will be subject to price negotiations between Medicare and pharmaceutical companies under the inflation reduction act. |
| 1:28.0 | Talk with Dr. Aaron Carol about that yesterday. Hurricane Adalia strengthened to a category two hurricane is it's moving over the record warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 1:39.0 | Air pollution is now more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet earth and smoking or alcohol. |
| 1:46.0 | The Biden administration weakened regulations, protecting millions of acres of wetland to comply with a supreme court ruling. |
| 1:53.0 | Number of available jobs in the US fell for the third consecutive month and 57% of likely Georgia Republican voters support Donald Trump. |
| 2:02.0 | Well, 15% support Ron DeSantis in the new poll to be fair, those same Georgia Republicans probably supported Herschel Walker, so that's who we're dealing with here. |
| 2:12.0 | Let me just go back to that one headline air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person planet earth and smoking or alcohol according to a benchmark study by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, the annual air quality life index reported that find particulate air pollution, |
| 2:28.0 | not a vehicle and industrial emissions wildfires and more remain quote the greatest external threat to public health. |
| 2:36.0 | Fine particulate matter is linked to lung disease, heart disease, drugs and cancer, the World Health Organization estimates that permanently reducing these pollutants would add 2.3 years of life expectancy of every average person. |
| 2:49.0 | So you're at smoking another uses of tobacco reduced global life expectancy by 2.2 years, well, that's just crazy. |
| 2:56.0 | We'll have to take a deeper dive on that with somebody who knows more what else can I tell you? |
| 3:00.0 | Oh, the late night talk show host comedians are working together on a podcast. |
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