The Problem Isn’t White People — It’s Whiteness, People

Anti-racists aren’t trying to make anyone feel bad. It’s called a systemic analysis for a reason

Tim Wise
7 min readJul 12, 2021

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Photo by the author (on location), Rage Against the Machine/The Umma Chroma video shoot, Watertown, TN. 10/17/20

Amid the backlash to anti-racist teaching and activism — symbolized by the assault on Critical Race Theory — one claim stands out as the principal lamentation of aggrieved conservatives. Namely, the idea that…

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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)