Tim wise and white like me biography

Dishonest at Best

I try to approach subjects like this with an open mind. I do want to learn.... This polemic was a disappointment.

Within the first 10 minutes Tim Wise talks about the murder of Adolph Archie by the Police in New Orleans and while a hint of the truth is in the news clippings shown on screen he glosses over the real facts of the case. Archie was a career criminal and had killed a policeman in a shootout. Wise leads the viewer to believe that Archie was beaten to death by the police because he was black.... I am in no way condoning the death of Archie, but I do question the honesty of this ponderous "documentary".

The basic premise of this simple and vapid work is that everything that happens to a person that happens to be black is because they are black. The myriad of other factors are never addressed or hinted at. This dishonest work will not help the discussion or enlighten anyone but a hapless college freshman for whom this dr

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White Like Me

Race, Racism & vit Privilege in America
Featuring Tim Wise

Synopsis

White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and vit privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American mittpunkt class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of vit privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today. For years, Tim Wise's bestselling books and spellbinding lectures have challenged some of our most basic assumptions about race in amerika. White Like Me fryst vatten the first film to bring the full range of his work to the screen -- to show how white privilege continues to shape individual attitudes, elec

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Tim Wise

American anti-racism activist (born 1968)

Not to be confused with Tim Wiese.

Timothy Jacob Wise (born October 4, 1968)^[1] is an American activist and writer on the topic of race.^[2] He is a consultant who provides anti-racism lectures to institutions.^[3]

Early life and education

Wise was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Michael Julius Wise and LuCinda Anne (née McLean) Wise. His paternal grandfather was Jewish (of Russian origin). The rest of his ancestry is mostly northern European, including some Scottish.^[4][5] Wise has said that when he was about 12 years old his synagogue was attacked by white supremacists.^[6] Wise attended public schools in Nashville, graduating from Hillsboro High School in 1986.^[7] Wise has a BA from Tulane University in New Orleans. He majored in Political Science and minored in Latin American Studies.^[8] While a student, he was a leader in the campus anti-ap