Hope is a Noun, Struggle is a Verb and Nouns are Not Enough

The importance of moral action even in the face of uncertainty

Tim Wise
11 min readJul 4, 2018

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If you write and speak about racism and racial inequity, as I have for nearly thirty years, you get accustomed to certain questions and challenges from readers and those in your audiences. Some are hostile, others rooted in curiosity and open-mindedness (even…

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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)