Black Kids Aren’t “Illegitimate,” But Your Data Comprehension Is

Racist lies about out-of-wedlock birthrates

Tim Wise
5 min readFeb 12, 2018

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Some things are so predictable you can very nearly set your clocks by them.

Among the most ironclad examples of this truism is the speed with which folks on the right — especially white folks — will seek to derail a conversation about racial inequality and…

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)