White Folks Have Always Denied Systemic Racism

And we’ve always been wrong — now is no different

Tim Wise

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Image: Timothy Fenn, Flickr, CC License 2.0

No matter the poll, no matter the year, and no matter the conditions of life in America for people of color, white folks have rarely ever believed racism to be much of a problem.

Nothing shocking there, I suppose.

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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)