Summary Of Between Barack And A Hard Place By Tim Wise

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Tim Wise’s lecture “Between Barack and a Hard Place” touched so many bases, all of it leading back to racist America and how racism is still present today. He starts strong by saying the guilt and responsibility are two different things, “guilty is what you feel for what you have done and responsibility is what you take for who you are. I believe that the pointing out of the two words is really important when talking about race. Some white people feel as though they should try to ignore race and try not to discriminate because they feel guilty about how “the system” is set up against us and they feel like there whiteness is to blame for that.. Other white people feel like race isn’t an issue and that we should get over the fact that slavery