If you have not heard of Tim Wise do not fret. He is in all of us. We are all trying to solve the mystery of why the White Man's ice is colder and or trying to decide how we keep it colder or trying to decide how we can melt it, or trying to decide how we can rewrite the scientific determination of the freezing point, or trying to decide how to endure living in cold belly of the beast or trying to decide how to detonate the ice pack , ice factories and ice protectors with out being blown up ourselves. This is a dilemma for some and an inherited mantra and inalienable right for others. Perhaps when Jefferson wrote about what God has endowed us with, perhaps Jefferson was really, really, really , really only referring to white men of property. Perhaps the definition of white privilege embodied, codified, legitimized, protected and enforced so vehemently is the natural law of the land. Perhaps Apartheid, separate but equal, totalitarian states, color codes formal and informal are the natural order of things.Perhaps the fittest have earned the right to rule, dominate, subjugate, conquer and impose regime change whenever it wants. Perhaps to be white in Cuba or Brazil inherently bestows a status higher than if you are a black or brown citizen of those countries.
Tim Wise spoke at SCSU on Friday April 23, 2010. All of the above ruminations are mine alone. It is now 2010 however and not the 1960's. It is not the 1860's.
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