The Nation
barack obama
Congress
republicans
health care
media
healthcare
Wall Street
protest
Israel
Banks
politics
unions
race
democrats
oil
Bailout
Bush
Palestine
feminism
women
tea party
racism
unemployment
environment
immigration
Gaza
elections
Showing videos filed under: infant mortality
Tim Wise: Dragging Racial Bias Into the Open
August 25, 2011“The bank of justice is bankrupt” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in DC 1963. Now, as a King Memorial is unveiled in DC., too little has changed. And the Obama team's race-neutral politics aren't helping, says racial justice scholar Tim Wise in this critical interview from September 2010.Tim Wise, Melissa Gira Grant and Pricele$$
September 24, 2010"In every sense the Tea Party is able to get away with things that no group of color could ever possibly do," says Tim Wise, author of the new book Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity. While the Tea Party wails about socialism, Wise notes, they want to cut social services that they perceive as benefits for people of color--and the Obama administration's "race-neutral" politics aren't helping anyone.
NOTICE: GRITtv and GRITradio are not affiliated with Ogden Publications, Inc., and are in no way associated with, or authorized or sponsored by, Ogden Publications Inc. or GRIT Magazine.
For information on GRIT magazine, go to www.grit.com.
For information on GRIT magazine, go to www.grit.com.