Race From A Privileged Son By Tim Wise Analysis

Author, educator and antiracist essayist, Tim Wise examines in his book, White Like Me Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, his life story of racism, white privilege and whiteness. Wise uses his life experiences as Southern Jewish man and the fight against the establishment that created white privilege, the imperfections of the invisible “golden ticket” of equality, freedom from prejudices and fairness that is bestowed only upon whites, at birth, while “withheld from people of color” (Wise XI). In the preface of his book, Wise states that when he started the journey against racism he was often asked, mostly by whites, “what happened to him?” This question was often meant, why would an educated white person take on such as plight as racism? …show more content…
Life experiences As a multi-racial woman, I have experienced racism for a unique perspective. For the most part I appear to be white. I can walk in any store and not have security follow me around. I can drive by a police officer and likely not receive a second glance, because of my appearance. However, when I am with my sisters, who clearly appear multiracial, we often are followed in stores by security. My sisters become nervous when they see a police car pull up next to in traffic or driving by as we are walking to the park. They worry that they will be pulled over or stopped and questioned, simply for being brown. Wise explains that being white means you do not have to worry about being pulled over or as he put it “walking while black”. That being innocent until proven guilty only applies to whites. Another scenario that I experienced, last night, was due to a Spokane News Channel. The Facebook post for this new channel stated “TWO ARRESTED AFTER HIGH SPEED CHASE: 28-year-old Carlos Everybodytalksabout and 25 year-old Dara Alvarez were been arrested (yes this is what it said) after leading Othello Police on a high speed chase in a stolen vehicle. And yes, the mans last name REALLY IS