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Dealing with the aftermath of Ferguson, MO Mike Brown shot and killed Darren Wilson - no indictment, no charges How much of this is a white problem as well, because unity is the coming...
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Tim Wise: White folk need to "step back" have an "appreciation" of the rioting in Ferguson
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After Ferguson Posted: Thursday, November 27, 2014 9:34 am Comment Email Print
Repetitive Motion Disorder:Black Reality and White Denial in America - Tim Wise writes in Tikkun - the US-based interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives: I suppose there is no longer much point in debating the facts surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown.
First, because Officer Darren Wilson has been cleared by a grand jury, and even the collective brilliance of a thousand bloggers pointing out the glaring inconsistencies in his version of events that August day wont result in a different outcome.
And second, because Wilsons guilt or innocence was always somewhat secondary to the larger issue: namely, the issue of this gigantic national inkblot staring us in the face, and what we see when we look at itand more to the point, why? Because it is a kind of racial Rorschach (is it not?) into which each of these casesnot just Brown but all the others, from Trayvon Martin to Sean Bell to Patrick Dorismond to Aswan Watson and beyondinevitably and without fail morph. That we see such different things when we look upon them must mean something. That so much of white America cannot see the shapes made out so clearly by most of black America cannot be a mere coincidence, nor is it likely an inherent defect in our vision. Rather, it is a socially-constructed astigmatism that blinds so many to the way in which black folks often experience law enforcement.
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Tim Wise an anti-racist essayist, author and educator is the next speaker in Lincoln Universitys Droppin Knowledge Lecture Series.
Hell speak at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Martin Luther King Halls Thomas D. Pawley Theatre, on the southwest corner of East Dunklin and Chestnut streets.
Admission is free; the event is open to the public.
Wise began his career as youth coordinator and associate director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism.
He now tours the country speaking to students on more than 1,000 college and high school campuses, and to professional institutions, on ways to remove racism from within their ranks.
Wises memoir White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son is known for its depiction of how racism creates privilege for Caucasians, while impacting persons of color negatively.
His five other, already published works also have earned critical acclaim, including, Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority.
His seventh work, Culture of Cruelty: How Americas Elite Demonize the Poor, Valorize the Rich and Jeopardize the Future, is scheduled to be released early next year.
The Droppin Knowledge Lecture Series was launched last month, to bring engaging speakers to LUs campus and community on a regular basis.
The next event in the series will be offered in January.
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