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  1. Tim Wise

    ...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change {which they would perceive as against their interests} or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality
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  2. Tim Wise _ White Like Me: Reflections on

    The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.
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  3. Tim Wise _ Dear White America: Letter to

    As harsh as it may sound to some of us, Toni Morrison had it right when she suggested, "In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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