Tim Wise Thinking Quotations

There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks around who actually remember them...

What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at least—is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.