rant
July 4, 2008
- Here's a holiday-appropriate rant, taken from a longer essay I did in October of 2001. The title of the essay was "Patriotism as Pathology," and for those who'd like to see the whole thing, you can find ia slightly different version of it at the following link:http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/patriotismpathology.html______ I must confess that I have never been a patriot. I have never ...
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July 3, 2008
- Woke up way too early this morning, thanks to what I can only interpret as the utter implosion of my sinuses. Turned on the TV, watched a worse-than-expected Lifetime movie with Tracy Gold--note, I say that as if there had ever been a Lifetime movie that didn't star Tracy Gold--and then, after the credits had rolled and I had finished up my second box of kleenex, I switched on the news...Big ...
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June 30, 2008
- When Jeremiah Wright said that the U.S. has a history of violence against innocent people--the kind of thing that fits the textbook definition of the term, "terrorism"--and that this history can, at least in part, explain the attacks against us on September 11, 2001, he was excoriated in the press and by the public. How dare he suggest that the cause for those attacks was anything other ...
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June 20, 2008
- The Ugly Side of Disaster: Racism and the Calculus of Comparative SufferingBy Tim WiseJune 18, 2008Disasters bring out the best and worst in people.On the one hand, millions of folks respond to the suffering of their fellow human beings with compassion, concern, and even significant financial assistance when needed. Be it a hurricane, an earthquake, tornadoes or the recent massive flooding in the ...
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June 19, 2008
- So, I'm just wondering...Ain't Michelle Obama a woman?The reason I ask is this: During the Presidential primaries, there were numerous examples of sexist media commentary aimed at Hillary Clinton, from comments on her cleavage, to her pantsuits, to her laugh (described as a "cackle") to her voice sounding like "the voice every husband knows" when being asked to take out the ...
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June 10, 2008
- Call this a rant, flubber, whatever. To me, it's the best way I have of expressing myself. And for some reason, I feel the need to express myself today. Of all places, while reading blog entries on MSNBC's political sound-off page, I was reminded of the absolute importance of storytelling. Some contributors were angry, sexist, racist or, unfortunately, all three. Usually, after ...
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