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EffieBlack

(14,249 posts) Sat Feb 9, 2019, 11:10 AM Feb 2019

Tim Wise on the "Psychological Wage of Whiteness"

This is deep, brilliant, and concise.

Take 3 minutes and watch it all the way through.

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Tim Wise on the "Psychological Wage of Whiteness" (Original Post) EffieBlack Feb 2019 OP

K&R WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2019 #1

K&R Kurt V. Feb 2019 #2

Countless books have been written that don't explain this as well as Wise did in 3 minutes! Empowerer Feb 2019 #3

Well... that's it in a nutshell. 2naSalit Feb 2019 #4

K&R ismnotwasm Feb 2019 #5

If Trump voters were to honestly answer the question "how does supporting Trump actually help you?" mokawanis Feb 2019 #6

always spot on... handmade34 Feb 2019 #7

WhiskeyGrinder

(27,227 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 11:16 AM

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Kurt V.

(5,624 posts)

2. K&R

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 11:24 AM

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Empowerer

(3,900 posts)

3. Countless books have been written that don't explain this as well as Wise did in 3 minutes!

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 12:14 PM

Feb 2019

2naSalit

(103,810 posts)

4. Well... that's it in a nutshell.

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 12:37 PM

Feb 2019

ismnotwasm

(42,674 posts)

5. K&R

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 12:38 PM

Feb 2019

On edit, had a professor who said modern racism could possibly be traced to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. White/Brown ppl

mokawanis

(4,494 posts)

6. If Trump voters were to honestly answer the question "how does supporting Trump actually help you?"

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 12:57 PM

Feb 2019

their answer would be, for most of them, that it doesn't help them at all. To the contrary, their support actually hurts them because it serves to keep an elite group in power that doesn't really care about them at all.

handmade34

(24,056 posts)

7. always spot on...

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 01:06 PM

Feb 2019

Never a bad idea to listen to and heed Tim Wise!!

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