Tim is Wise

Author, Activist, and Social Commentator on Race Relations, Tim Wise, speaks up and speaks out on Martin Luther King Day in Dubuque.

Video and Still Images by Gary Olsen, Dubuque Schools. Contributions from Charlie Ellis, Second Camera

January 17, 2005

im Wise was an interesting choice for keynoter at the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Breakfast celebration in Dubuque, Iowa. It's the first time in anyone's recent memory that a white person was invited to speak. But this was not some ordinary white man. It was Tim Wise. For those in the know on topics of race in America, this social justice activist has been an outspoken critic of virtually everyone else's well-meaning intentions. For example: "I love teachers, but most teachers are clueless when it comes to managing race differences in their classroom," Wise says. "To treat everyone the same as if you are color blind, is ridiculous and it's not doing a child of color any good."

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Speaking on college campuses and to hundreds of community groups throughout the country when he's not serving as Senior advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute in Nashville, Wise is winning awards, squaring off on radio and on TV and in public debates with noted conservatives.

His involvement in the antiapartheid movement earned international attention and a personal thanks from Nelson Mandela and South African Archbishop, Desmond Tutu.

Not bad for a guy who is actually too young to have ever seen Martin Luther King in anything but history books, and news archives.

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