Tim Wise: On White Privilege (Teaser)

http://www.MediaEd.org

From the DVD:

The Pathology of Privilege
Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality

For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well. This is an invaluable classroom resource: an ideal introduction to the social construction of racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege.

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[vanishingofemptiness]

Sorry to offend you, but race is not a social construct, equality is.

[myhairyscapegoat]

@iamsaved7 Being born Jewish is priviledge,.nature is not equal.. Lions beat domestic cats, Cats beat Mice. Jews use money to usuro Government and agitate White Black strife. Tim Wise is a Jewish race agitator.

[iamsaved7]

@Ragnark1 dude being born white should not mean automatic privilege ...wtf are you talking about? ignorance.

[missashycake1621]

Not at all. He simply understood things about privilige most white people can't even fathom. As a white man, he has power to have audiences listen to him. Had it been a black man talking about this--it would just be "another black man complaining about the world". It's beneficial for him to do this to get white America to open their eyes.

[Ragnark1]

Is this one of those people who hates the fact that they were born white and is now trying to apologize for it?

[piscesariescusp121]

bio98756,

well, he's taking an outstanding path to that "whole new level."

[loadedh23]

I think you're referring to the Lewontin fallacy (AWF Edwards 2003 'Human genetic diversity: Lewontins fallacy.' BioEssays, 25, 798-801. The variation is actually similar to that of dog breeds. Geneticists measure genetic diversity within a species by determining the average heterozygosity of the species genome, or the likelihood of its having more than one variant of any given gene. Humans have an average heterozygosity of around 0.7, whereas dogs is about 0.4.

[cleglide]

Obama and Dr. Tim in 2008