Tim Wise

I attended the Time Wise lecture on Tuesday, October 11th where Tim Wise spoke about racism and discrimination in America. Tim was a very uplifting speaker who talked about very raw subjects that many of us simply avoid. He spoke about racism, and how it is in-fact not a thing of the past. He talked about LGBTQ groups and other groups we look at as minorities. Tim talked about everything we talk about in Women’s studies but just to a heightened degree. He raised his voice when he became more passionate, he spoke more graphically than we can really talk in the classroom and he also called out the leaders of our country. He focused a lot on how we see or more than that, don’t see African American people in our society. We tend to still stereotype them as “thugs” and “low-lives” and as the people who stole our jobs. But, really, they are human beings too and they deserve jobs just the same as any other person on this earth. The only difference between Caucasian people and African Americans is the pigment in their skin, so, that makes them less than us? How screwed up is that! Tim also touched on the black lives matter movement that has seemed to shake the nation. He explained that of course this doesn’t mean that not all lives…

He was never raised to see the differences the people around him, but as he grew older he began to see many of the injustices against his friends because they were different. Wise made a film titled “White Like Me” and says that “The answer is to be color conscious, not color blind.” This statement does not exclusively apply to racial issues. It can be interpreted for any situation, because we will never come in contact with someone exactly like ourselves. We need to be aware of the differences…

It is no secret that racism is still a big problem today. People in our society to this day still think that it is okay to treat people differently based of the color of their skin or ethnicity. Tim Wise mentioned in his speech at the University of San Fransisco that since racism isn't always easy to talk about, color blindness and color muteness is becoming an increasing problem. The concept of Race was socially constructed when the European’s discovered people that looked different from them.…

In Tim Wise’s video, The Pathology of White Privilege, Tim Wise elaborates on several race-related issues and discusses the affects of white privilege as we see in our daily lives. From the beginning, Wise states, “This study found that between 1991 and 2000, there was almost one million African Americans in the United States who died, who would not have died if they merely been white and had the average health care quality and access of the typical white man in this country” (Wise, 2008,…

According to Tim Wise, white privilege is being able to benefit just for your skin tone. Wise uses multiple examples of how being white is a privilege. For example, Tim Wise brings up the subject of drugs. He explains how many white people are actually more likely to be found with drugs, however many brown and black people are being pulled over instead. He discusses the subject of how if police were fighting against crime they would be more likely to pull over white people however they do not.…

In the “The Pathology of White Privilege” by Tim Wise talks about how white privilege has affected the United States. He brings up that “White Privilege” is not seen by Whites that it 's as if Whites are blind to the issue. That America is blind to racism, blind to problems that only affects minorities. We choose to ignore things when it 's not directly affecting us, but how are we as a nation ignoring issues that are happening here in our nation? We choose to incarcerate minorities, deny…

Republic by Plato are clearly parallel to one another. There are three classes in the state and three parts of the mind in the ruler. The three classes of the state are the rulers, the soldiers, and the craftsmen. The three parts of the mind are the rational or reason part, the irrational appetitive part, and the spirited part. The rational corresponds to the rulers, the appetitive corresponds to the craftsmen, and the spirited corresponds to the soldiers. Socrates then…

He has received critical acclaim as a writer from his memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son (About p.3). Tim Wise would be in agreement that blacks should not trust their doctors. Tim Wise understands of the discriminations that are ongoing today in America. If there were not discrimination towards minorities as a whole they may be more likely to trust medical officials. Tim Wise and Harriet Washington would be in agreement that blacks today are afraid to go to the…

White Like Me In the documentary “White Like Me,” Tim Wise discusses the hidden or perhaps more accurately, ignored racism present in America. He starts by pointing out that most white Americans are blind to the privilege that being white provides them. When asked what it means to be white, a white person often wouldn’t really know, because they don’t really have to think about it, which in of itself is one of the many privileges of being white. In fact, white people feel that when people…

I grew up in a small town where there were not many people of color. In my high school class of roughly 160 there were no people of color. I was not familiar with any until I started my college career. My eyes have been opened to many things since I began my college career and the subject of race is just one. White like Me is a documentary by Tim Wise an American anti-racism activist and this are my thoughts on the his documentary. Watching White like Me felt as if just because Tim Wise grew up…