Tim Wise Quotes - Page 2

• When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

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  Drinking, College, Cities

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• It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

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  Racism, Posts, Hard

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• As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

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  Hook, Burning, Release

  "Pardon You: Racism, Reparations and the Politics of Blame (as Explained by Henry Louis Gates Jr.)" by Tim Wise, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

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• People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.

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  Children, Color, Long

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