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Activist Tim Wise will deliver his lecture Great White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer and Politics of Trumpism today on the uptown campus. (Photo by Ryan Rivet)

Anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise will tackle the rise of Trumpism and provide historical perspective on the current political climate during his talk Great White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer and Politics of Trumpism, at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 30 in the Lavin-Bernick Center's Kendall Cram Ballroom on Tulanes uptown campus.

Wises lecture is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Center for Public Service, the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking, the Center for Academy Equity, Newcomb-Tulane College, and Newcomb College Institute.

A 1990 political science graduate of Tulane University, Wise began his career as an activist while a student, when he fought for economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa.

I hope that students come to the event with open minds and consider how the current political climate is not only affecting our nation but how its affecting our campus.

Carolyn Barber-Pierre, assistant vice president for student affairs in the Office of Multicultural Affairs

Carolyn Barber-Pierre, assistant vice president for student affairs in the Tulane Office of Multicultural Affairs, said that Wise was very involved as a student with her office.

Theres such a divisive atmosphere in America right now around race relations, and he has a wealth of knowledge and insight to share on these issues, she said.

Over the past 20 years, Wise has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV programs and has shared his experiences with audiences at more than a thousand college and high school campuses across the nation.

He is also the author of seven books, including his acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son, and Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America.

During his discussion, Wise will reflect on President Trumps election within a historical context and explore ties between Trumps rhetoric and race relations.

I hope that students come to the event with open minds and consider how the current political climate is not only affecting our nation but how its affecting our campus, Barber-Pierre said.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 504-865-5181.

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There is research which clearly shows that if you examine the dynamics of family, wealth and income among the white working class and poor it looks very similar to what we've been saying about black and brown folks in the same cohort. But white folks are not pathologized in the same way.

There is a clear double standard in the way that we talk about the pathological behavior of drug addiction and dysfunction when it's white folks, as opposed to black and brown folks.

Like that blubbering Chris Christie crying about his friend who was addicted to drugs. When I saw that last year, I laughed and said to myself, "Where was his sympathy for black folks and Latinos and First Nations people?"

One of the most highly correlated factors with Trump support, on a county-by-county basis, is the level of opiate addiction.

In a sense, Trump is the perfect candidate. Here is a guy who comes along and essentially is a walking, talking opioid. He's somebody who comes along and says, just like heroin does, just like OxyContin does, just like all these opiates do, he says, "I can take away your pain." Not only can I take it away, I can tell you what the source is and you just take me or in the case of an election, you vote for me and you won't have to be in pain anymore. But just like an opiate, he doesn't really solve the problem of these individuals.

There's a real discussion that needs to happen about this moment in American history where white folks more broadly are in a desperate search to be numb numb to other people's pain, numb to their own suffering, seeking out scapegoats for their problems. Which of course is what addicts often do as well. To some extent if you become addicted to privilege, even if it's not great wealth, you've just become addicted to the privilege of being considered what a "real" American is.

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Racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits white Americans in every realm. Tim Wise shares how racial privilege impedes progressive social change for all and ways to challenge this paradigm.

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He has spent the past 20 years speaking to audiences in all 50 states, on over 1,000 college and high school campuses, at hundreds of professional and academic conferences, and to community groups across the country.

He has also lectured internationally, in Canada and Bermuda, and has trained corporate, government, entertainment, media, law enforcement, military, and medical industry professionals on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. Wise has provided anti-racism training to educators and administrators nationwide.

Wise is the author of seven books, including his latest, Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America (City Lights Books). Other books include Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority (City Lights Books); his highly acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (recently updated and re-released by Soft Skull Press); Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White; Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male; Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama; and Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity.

Named one of 25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World, by Utne Reader, Wise has contributed chapters or essays to over 25 additional books and his writings are taught in colleges and universities across the nation. His essays have appeared on Alternet, Salon, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, The Root, Black Commentator, BK Nation and Z Magazine among other popular, professional and scholarly journals.

From 1999 to 2003, Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, in Nashville, and in the early 90s he was Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the largest of the many groups organized for the purpose of defeating neo-Nazi political candidate David Duke.

Wise has been featured in several documentaries, including the 2013 Media Education Foundation release, White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America. The film, which he co-wrote and co-produced, has been called A phenomenal educational tool in the struggle against racism, and One of the best films made on the unfinished quest for racial justice, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke University, and Robert Jensen of the University of Texas, respectively. 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 appears regularly on CNN and MSNBC to discuss race issues and was featured in a 2007 segment on 20/20. He graduated from Tulane University in 1990 and received antiracism training from the Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond, in New Orleans.

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Some sports require speed, agility or lots of power to win. But archery is different and requires standing still, eye-hand coordination and control.

About 30 students, ages 8-17, learned these skills, and more, during two, weeklong Youth Archery Camps held July 31-Aug 4 and Aug. 7-11 at the Harker Heights Recreation Center.

Kent Carlson led the camp; hes both a Level 2 certified USA Archery instructor and a merit badge instructor with the Boy Scouts.

Theres an inner challenge of getting better the more you practice, and kids really love the control it takes for archery, Carlson said.

Adapted from the USA Archery Association guidelines, the camp covered basic safety, shooting technique, range set-up and stance and parts of the bow.

Each three-hour class included plenty of shooting opportunities from close range up to 10 yards.

Students started with a recurve bow, the simplest type, and then after building up some arm strength, used a compound bow with a pull weight of 16-25 pounds of pressure needed to shot it.

They shot at paper targets, played tournaments and archery versions of games, like Tic-Tac-Toe and Battleship. On the final day, they took aim at 3-D foam targets of a deer, pig and turkey.

As a self-taught archer, Tim Wise let daughter Angel Wise, 14, take the camp so she could learn the basics.

I like the hands-on training that is teaching her to do archery the right way, Wise said.

While archery is a fun sport, its also a weapon said Angel Wise.

Ive learned not to fear the bow and arrow, and gained some confidence from using it, she said.

This year marked the first time Harker Heights Parks and Recreation Department offered the camp, said Jeff Achee, recreation superintendent. It took a combination of Carlson offering to teach the classes and community support to make the camp happen.

Archery is a niche sport, so we hope to do the camp every summer since this one has been so successful, he said.

Carolicia Roberts, 11, took a breath, raised her bow, pulled back the cord, aimed and released the arrow almost in one smooth movement.

In the blink of an eye, it hit the target. In fact, all six of her arrows hit the target. But perhaps not too surprising since she started the sport two years ago in elementary school.

Im working on my stance and controlling my breathing to keep the arrow straight, said Roberts, who hopes to one day compete in the Olympics. This camp is really helpful; Im glad I took it.

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