Talk - Tim Wise on White Privilege

He gave a talk at my university, he should be doing talks at high schools though.

Wow- a white man who speaks the truth
in america
Unbelievable!

I concur with Tim Wise and I have even read his book "White Like Me". He makes many valid points, points most of us (especially white Americans) are unwilling to acknowledge.

What's sad is that it takes a white man to validate the truth of white privilige. If a black man had came out with the same assertions it would be dismissed as, "just get over it". But I suppose if this is what it takes to get white people to acknowledge the intrisic injustice of this society, its a start.

It's funny how I read all of these comments stating that Tim Wise is so right yet black people have been saying this for centuries but no one wanted to hear it. This, ironically, is another example of white privilege.

It's ironic, to be sure, but isn't it better that he uses white privilege in the way that he does? As a white man of a similar view, I feel it to be a moral and social obligation to use whatever advantages might be available to me to advocate for change on these issues. White folks were scared of Malcom X, and it gave them an easy out. White folks don't have that easy out when they get criticized by a white man from the south. No matter the rhetoric, the speaker behind it matters.

I love the part where he talks about passive language "What's the opposite of underprivileged?.........over- privileged"
It's so true and the thing is he seems like a better activist of anti-black racism than Sharpton and Jackson.  This man knows his stuff, and see's what is really going on.
5/5

Last month, a black professor at Columbia named Lionel McIntyre assaulted a white female faculty member at a bar because she disagreed with him about "white privilege".

He has not been charged with a hate crime.

I would like the "anti-racist" activists and "white privilege" demagogues out there to explain to me, in clear terms, how that is NOT a hate crime, and how McIntyre does NOT have a privilege in that respect. C'mon Mr. Wise, please weigh in. Enlighten me.

Chronic, always amused when White Americans bitch to anti-White mistreatment from Blacks when the country is universally known for it's era of anti-Black cruelties and injustices, lasting 5 centuries and ending 35 years ago. I wouldn't even say it ended considering today's Black Americans are reaping the consequences, ghettoized from the extreme anti-Black discrimination and forced to remain in that state as White flight took place in the 70s and the wealth of society was distanced from Blacks

As an African American, I just want you to know that I appreciate that Jmzmmmerman. I hope people like you and Tim Wise know just how much we Blacks appreciate your open-mindedness. You are among many who refuse to see where we are coming from no matter what we say. It makes me respect Whites like you and Tim Wise all the much more. Thank you sweetheart! :)

sigh! Childrenscnerterh! lmfao! As much as I look up to Tim Wise and utterly appreciate his work, I'm noticing a lot of Whites giving Tim the same unreasonable reactions as they do Blacks whenever I try to argue logic over to them. I think there's no getting through to the a lot of Whites out there. This makes people like Tim Wise who isn't immature even all the more one of a respectable and one of a kind