White like him: Tim Wise at JCCC

This is the kind of guy we love. Last time we checked Tim Wise’s MySpace page, we were greeted with the warning:

“Hate mail, while neither appreciated nor desired, will be graded for form, content, spelling and grammar.”

Wise is a white guy who writes about white racism; he’s also a frequent speaker on the college lecture circuit and sometimes he’s a teacher (last year, he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar for Diversity Issues at Washburn University in Topeka).

I fell for Wise last summer, when his essay titled “Your Whiteness Is Showing: An Open Letter to Certain White Women Who Are Threatening to Withhold Support from Barack Obama in November” was circulating on the Internet.