You should be proud of your race. I feel sorry that every day you have to look in the mirror and hate what you see. That's a shame.

Why do millions of whites strive for the tan?

TIM WISE
talks about white violence because of the coping factor
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2008/10/suffer-from-privilege-induced-lack-of.html



Has Black Friday arrived in America? If so, are you prepared?

Actually, if you're a "white" American, there's a good chance that you're less prepared than other Americans. Emotionally that, is. And mentally. Maybe even physically.

As is so often the case, Tim Wise has explained well this common symptom of learning to be white:

Racism and white privilege/supremacy generates a mindset of entitlement among those in the dominant group. This entitlement mentality can prove dangerous, whenever the expectations of a member of the group are frustrated. Principally this is because such persons develop very weak coping skills as a result of never having to overcome the obstacles that oppressed folks deal with every day and MUST conquer in order to survive.

So, as a result, it is the privileged (the beneficiaries of racism, and also, it should be pointed out, the class system) who are ill-prepared for setback: the loss of a job, stocks taking a nose-dive (who were the folks jumping out the windows in the great depression–not poor folks and folks of color, but rich whites who couldn’t handle being broke!) Likewise, if you look at the various personal pathologies that tend to be disproportionate in the white community (and upper middle class for that matter), they are interesting in that they all are about control–controlling one’s anxiety, emotional pain, or controlling and dominating others–like suicide, substance abuse, eating disorders, self-injury/mutilation, serial killing and mass murder (as opposed to just regular one-on-one homicide), sexual sadism killings, etc.

Not knowing how the world works is dangerous. White privilege and racism allow the dominant group to live in a bubble of unreality. Most days that’s no big deal I suppose. But every now and then reality intrudes on you and if you haven’t been expecting it, the trauma is magnified. So, when 9/11 happened, millions of whites were running around saying “why do they hate us?” because whites have never had to see our nation the way others do–we’ve been able to live in la-la land.

But folks of color didn’t say this, because those without privilege HAVE to know what others think about them. Not to do so is to be in perpetual danger. So whites flipped out, and by virtue of being unprepared, pushed for a policy response (war) that folks of color were HIGHLY skeptical of from the beginning. But whites, enthralled by our sense of righteousness (itself a manifestation of privilege), pushed forward, convinced that the war in Iraq would go swimmingly. How’s that working out?
In other words, racism and privilege generate mentalities and policies that are dysfunctional, even deadly for whites as with folks of color. Folks of color are the first victims, to be sure, and the worst. But as someone else said, what goes around. . .
Privilege creates a false sense of security. Being the dominant group can set you up for a fall, can prevent you from building up the coping skills needed to deal with setback, because so often those skills are ones you just don't need.
Until you do, that is.


[This quotation is adapted from two sources: a comment Tim Wise wrote at Resist Racism, and one of his books, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son. Lyrics for Steely Dan's song "Black Friday"]



This is a clip from The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality, the newly released video from the Media Education Foundation. The video is of a speech given by Tim Wise at Mt. Holyoke College, October 1, 2007.



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

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http://www.redroom.com/video/tim-wise-creation-whiteness-clip


more complete video but has relatedlinks/urls and related to more of his speakings/lectures


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Tim Wise-institutional racism, labor, prison education

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“Colorblindness,” “Illuminated Individualism,” Poor Whites, and Mad Men: The Tim Wise Interview, Part 1


http://www.racialicious.com/2010/09/09/%E2%80%9Ccolorblindness%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cilluminated-individualism%E2%80%9D-poor-whites-and-mad-men-the-tim-wise-interview-part-1/

Tim Wise is an absolute moron....

Talks in total generalities and only sees racism in Whites, when it is prevalent all over the place.

Only thing worse than a fool is someone who sites them as a credible source.

You know I agree with you 100%.  White mothers have locked up their infants in car and pushed it in to river and then called police to say a black man stole their car!  (Susan Smith, MD)

White mothers have drowned their infants in bath tub and have told court that GOD told them to do so.

White husbands have killed their wives and children in record numbers just to get rid of them for good.

Looks like it runs in their blood.   They truly represent GOD, GUNS and GUTS but only at the expense of their own wives and children.

She was traveling to America on a ship and forgot to pack her "sun hat"  By the time she got to USA she was "tanned"

Absolutely mortified, she claimed that tan is in and guess what happened? It became fashionable

Another reason for tanning is socioeconomic.

In the past, poor worked in the fields and rich stayed indoors. To be tanned meant to be poor.

Today poor stay indoors, and rich play golf/ go to beach

Hence, being tanned signals freedom from pesky daily job

Lina

Sure, the statistics are there. Big fat hairy deal.

Using those sorts of statistics, it would be easy to say that white people are also more likely to put man on the moon, discover antibiotics, create the periodic table of elements or invent the internal combustion engine.

Tim Wise makes a living off hating white people. He needs to be consigned to an inconsequential corner where he can talk to himself.

Am I "proud" to be white? No. But I am not embarrassed to be white either. I am only proud or embarrassed of things that I, myself, have done. I have neither the credits nor the guilts of past generations.

I am an American -- a citizen of a country that is founded on individualism, not group-think.

Tim Wise is a group-think dumbass.

rosa parks was a racist who hates white bus drivers


something rush limbaugh,glenn beck,sarah palin........ would say

Tim Wise is not Rosa Parks. Nobody is making him sit at the back of the bus. He doesn't have to drink from a separate water fountain.

However, he doesn't belong at the back of the bus -- he should just be kicked off of it because of his unpleasant disposition.

And yes, I believe that Wise IS a racist.