So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.
Tim WiseThere 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.
Tim WiseYou can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.
Tim WiseWhat whites have rarely had to think aboutโbecause being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at leastโis 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.
Tim WiseAs a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular โhookโ upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.
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