74 Quotes by Tim Wise

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.