Tim Wise on White Privilege

What does it mean to be white in America? Tim Wise author of "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son", Wise speaks about how white privlege is often invisible to those who benefit from it. From historic segragation to modern social "norms" we are all a product of a system of privilege that is often ignored, even by liberals. He describes how racial privilege operates in a class system, so that poor whites still have an advantage over poor people of color, and how passive language allows us to think of privilege as a condition that occurs without intent. He concludes by describing how white privilege is destructive of white people by instiling a sense of entitlement that stunts the ability to cope with adversity and leads to various pathologies of control. 1 hr.