Wright On The Edge Talks Race And White Privilege With Tim Wise

“To hear conservatives tell it, there’s a one-sided race war going on in America, and white folks are the targets. From President Obama’s secret plan to use health care reform as a way to procure backdoor “reparations” for slavery, to his equally secret plan to wreck the economy as a way to pay white people back for centuries of racial oppression, to his personal responsibility for a fight on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois, in which two black kids beat up a white kid, it’s open season on white America. And of course, in case you weren’t convinced, surely that tax on tanning bed customers that was part of the health care bill should suffice to make the case: after all, it’s a clear slap at white folks and the result of the President’s deep antipathy towards those of us lacking sufficient melanin.”

– Tim Wise

Tim Wise, one of the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son and Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, joins Wendy Wright this Saturday for a candid conversation about race and white privilege in America.

Are we making progress towards racial equality? Find out this Saturday at 1pm. Talk just got interesting!

 Wright On The Edge, Saturday from 1-3pm on WOL and streaming live at woldcnews.com