Lil Bill, calling out some white creators who exploit Black-on-Black violence through the guise of “hip-hop journalism”…
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I haven’t posted any Tim Wise content in some time; he’s still on point:
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I’m glad to hear that he’s still at it, and still telling good stories to back up his insights. I skipped ahead, and it also sounds like he’s doing a better job than he used to of addressing his own profiting from the “diversty” consultancy industry. I remember that he used to waffle more and display less accountability in responses to charges that he’s a white “race hustler.”
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It occurred to me that although the video was posted yesterday, that speech might have taken place during 45’s first administration. Even if it did, all the content therein is still painfully accurate and relevant.
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I see. I got curious, and this looks like his most recent FBook post:
His own site, timwise.org, comes up as “This page isn’t working.” I hope the bastards who hate him didn’t finally get to him. 
Also, bummer that American LAWYER (if that’s who’s hosting Wise’s talk on their channel) left their mic off at the end!
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Word.
I think the poster of the video, Eugene from Kenya, thought that Tim Wise is an American lawyer. I agree it’s too bad about the audio at the end.
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I ordered the Equality is Greater than Division T-shirt. 
Thanks for posting.
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And what has been the response of Black Republican members of Congress to such behavior? Where is the pushback from his (once upon a time) only Black cabinet member, former HUD Secretary Ben Carson? Has there been any reaction from Snoop Dogg, Nelly, or other pro-Trump rappers who claim affinity with the Black grassroots? The answer, of course, is not a peep. Most have run for cover, pretending that Trump is not who he has always been: a serial racist attempting to reshape the nation into a far-right, anti-democratic, White, Christian nationalist stronghold.
Some of his prominent Black acolytes have, in fact, gone on the record opposing “equity” and DEI in general. Byron Donalds, for example, says he has issues with “equity” because it puts a person’s demographic ahead of his “actual qualifications.” It should be noted that, during the 2024 campaign, Donalds, whom Trump was then supposedly considering as a vice-presidential candidate, stated that the Jim Crow segregation era hadn’t actually been so bad because “the Black family was together” and “Black people voted conservatively.”
Clarence Lusane, a TomDispatch regular, is a political science professor and director of the International Affairs program and majors at Howard University, and Independent Expert to the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance. His latest book is Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy (City Lights).
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I’m not familiar with the show at all but the beef appears to be “White boys don’t commit knife crimes, those are for POORS! We commit GUN crimes!”?
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I think it’s UK based, so it’s not that the white boys commit gun crimes it’s that they commit just as many knife crimes. Which is still a tiny fraction compared to gun violence in the US, at least in terms of number of victims.
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Ah, that makes sense. Given current circumstances I sometimes forget that the USA doesn’t have a monopoly on racist stupidity.
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Well, you’d find it easier to opine about if you watched it ( and you really should – it’s only 4 episodes, and they’re all absolutely fantastic, acting, filming, story, message, everything).
The show does include a stabbing (that’s no spoiler), but it’s really not about stabbings per se. It’s about how parents navigate the threat of incel culture/the manosphere, and how it can ensnare even young boys and encourage them to abuse girls (and women). Boys of any race can and do get ensnared, perhaps especially boys those fathers are also flawed masculine role models.
The complaint about black stabbings is either a racist diversionary DARVO-ish tactic, or an ignorant misreading of what the show is about.
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The one thing I will say is that we now have a perfect blueprint for what is important to this country: everything they’re trying so hard to destroy is, in fact, what makes us great. The rest is chaff, at best.
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Awesome. Painful too, but awesome. If only the white folks who need to hear that would listen.
(I think he was channeling the spirit of Paul Mooney at the end there!)
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