When I read the views of Mr Wise it is clear to me that he sees Black salvation in the hands of getting WHITE FOLKS to change. Once they change we will live in prosperity. Thus his role is to spend time with Black people, telling us his view as insider. He gets off on tell us what "they" say about us when "we" are not around. For many Black people this is proof positive of what they had assumed all along.
I notice that Mr Wise is comfortable telling Black people how little power that we have. Thus our "racial hatred" should not count as much as the White with superior power. He points to the work of fellow traveler Michelle Alexander in regards to how drug laws effectively impression Black people. Just as they were set up to ensnare us. Of course neither Wise or Alexander will dare point to the situation in Cook County IL or Philadelphia. In both cases nearly 100% of the people enforcing the drug laws and the prison sentences are people who received the vote of the Black masses living within.
The trick that they both play is to assume that a "Black face" must be in power for "Black Power" to be rendered. Thus until we who are 14% of the US population (and who by the way will only grow to 15% of the population in 2050) can transact upon our inferior population numbers as we deny any complicity in the drug and incarceration situation with Black males. Indeed they won't talk about how the consciousness contained in these young Black males were gestated within communities and households that think favorably according to their liking.
Mr Wise talks about the lack of Black power as a means of shooting down claims from White Conservatives that they too are victims of racial prejudice. The one thing that most Black people will fail to notice as they focus on their perpetual battle against the White Conservative is that Mr Wise and other "Snarling Fox White Liberals" who maintain their protection racket speak little about the development of ORGANIC COMPETENCIES within the Black community so that we might grow strong - functionally equal to the White Conservative that they too are battling against as White Liberals.
What happens to Mr Wise's unchecked access to the Black Consciousness nucleus once the Black community stops focusing upon the external White conservative that has long ago departed our community while building up his own? The primary occasion of conflict comes when the progressives pull out the "social justice contract" that they have written up - telling all others about their rights to the resources that should be shared in common. This is the next phase beyond the relative protection from assault that is in place inside of the domains that the progressives now control. In as much as they stand on their own at present and yet have not figured out a way to organize the human resources within toward prosperous ends - they must scale their battle upon the "commanding heights" of the nation and attempt to gain control over them so that resources can be distributed via popular will rather than market leverage.
Project forward and detail the plans for increased productivity that Mr Wise and his ilk offer for the Black Community? Instead he is purely "Demand Side" economics. There are great needs within the Black community and we must leverage politics to service them. It matters not who is the service provider (competency) nor who is the sponsor (economic funding source). It is only that Black people reach the state of "being in receipt of benefit" that we are made whole in the world of Tim Wise.
But can it be said that we are equal?
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