Start the Collide

To come together with violent, direct impact. To crash together with a violent impact. These are two definitions of what it means to collide. I feel like this describes perfectly what this blog is going to hopefully be about. My hope is that we collide into some major issues facing the whites and blacks relationship in the nation. I want to hear from every side about where we are when it comes to race. It is 2010 and we need to put these issues at the for front of our daily lives and make that next leap to making America a more equal country. I know this is a very heated discussion but I hope that anyone who reads this or comments will respect the opinions of others and comes to each other with love and drive to really change the way things are. We have to change we cannot keep this gap between races alive. We must stand up one by one and realize that it starts with us. We must start taking this into our own hands. We must educate ourselves with the things that are going on in our country when dealing with the white and black cultures. To start the colliding effect we must violently crash into it.

Monday, May 10, 2010



A very interesting clip from Tim Wise.
He addresses the N-word in this
video and the difference between whites
and blacks saying it.

I have always obviously been against this word even if the person saying it is black.
I just felt like if black people said it then it gives white people an excuse to
think it is okay to say it, and it is absolutely not.
I just found it disrespectful to both cultures.

Please watch this video and let me know what you think!

ABOUT TIM WISE:
Tim Wise is well known and well respected anti-racist writer and activist. Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White, and his fourth book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama was released in spring 2009.

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