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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 20 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.

Not Just a Joke: Reflections on Free Speech, Violence and Mislabeled Heroism

By Tim Wise | Originally Published at Tim Wise. January 8, 2015 | Image Credit; Twitter Many years ago, when discussing the issue of hate speech and how it should be addressed on college campuses, my friend Paul Gallegos at Evergreen State College smiled and said, “Ya [...]

Not Just a Joke: Reflections on Free Speech, Violence and Mislabeled Heroism2016-11-29T17:37:24-05:00

Far More Than Anecdote: Quantifying Racism and White Privilege in the Criminal Justice System

“Personal anecdotes don’t prove anything. The justice system isn’t racist. Black people are arrested more often because they commit more crime. Period. End of story.” So read the message in my inbox this morning, sent by someone who had happened across my essay about Ferguson, [...]

Far More Than Anecdote: Quantifying Racism and White Privilege in the Criminal Justice System2016-11-29T17:37:27-05:00
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