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The Sun Interview
By The Color Of Their Skin
Tim Wise On The Myth Of A Postracial America
“I refer to today’s racism as ‘Racism 2.0.’ It’s the kind that says we like black and brown people – if they are enough like us. We like Obama because he ‘transcends race.’ This is a much more subtle kind of racism.”
MOREEssays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Archipelagoes
I am on a tiny island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland with a full-grown ram between my legs — not the way I usually spend a summer Saturday. This began as a simple errand, to fetch a fleece for dyeing from John Finlay, a crofter and neighbor of my hosts. It’s shearing day, and I am wearing big, padded coveralls with an incongruously saucy leopard-print chiffon scarf around my neck, lent to me by John Finlay’s mother to keep the chilly June winds from snaking down my front.
MOREReaders Write
Choosing Sides
My parents got divorced when I was five years old, but they maintained an amicable relationship until I was fourteen. By then my father had remarried, and I was living with him. The dysfunction in his new marriage took its toll. In a single year I went from honor student to drug addict and criminal.
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