> Well, this should make some folks really happy. Tim Wise has
> apparently influenced no one of import in this movement! Apparently,
> the anti-racism movement is so weak, so lacking in centrality for
> today's activists, that it never infiltrated contemporary activist
> practice, even among people worried about hierarchies, patriarchy, and
> inequality in general.
>
> Gawd. Even today's very liberal, college-educated young white men and
> women are STILL unaware of the way they reproduce structures of racism
> through their language.
I'd say this essay is a pretty good example of Wise-ism. A histrionic account of how personally wrenching and painful it was for this grad student to have an argument in the park over how to phrase a one-sentence characterization of racism with some friendly guys who agreed with her approach after a few minutes of conversation. Getting this poorly phrased sentence changed: a further step in the great historical chain of struggles - from the abolition of slavery, to the decolonization of Africa, to the smashing of Jim Crow, to the great working-group victory of 2011. A luta continua.
SA