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Friday, October 21, 2005

Tim Wise: "White Like Me"

Tim Wise was recently on the Morning Show at KPFA where he was discussing his book, "White Like Me." Tim gave a great speech about how we culturally look at racism from the person's of color perspective. During his speech, he broke down what really is going on in the white world; whether you are on the left or right of political spectrum: Listen

Taken from ZNet:
Tim Wise is the Director of the newly-formed Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) in Nashville, Tennessee. He lectures across the country about the need to combat institutional racism, gender bias, and the growing gap between rich and poor in the U.S. Wise has been called a "leftist extremist" by David Duke, "deceptively Aryan-looking" by a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and "the Uncle Tom of the white race," by right-wing author, Dinesh D' Souza. Whatever else can be said about him, his ability to make the right kind of enemies seems unquestioned.

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