[Peace-discuss] "On White Privilege" - an invitation from AWARE Films

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Confrontation is good.
Amerikans could benefit from a right smart more confrontation and a 
pretty good bit less pretension.

Here is another view.  This non-white fellow takes the debate way-y-y-y 
outside the usual limits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pRcr2uCbvw

Speaking to White people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfrR5lAxXV0

Interview with RussiaToday, on racism among whites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcDQ0QaIhuc



On 11/9/2009 11:20 AM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Friends -- please forward widely,
> AWARE Films invites you to a screening of "On White Privilege" at the 
> Champaign Public Library at 2p on Sunday, November 15th. (See below 
> for more about the film and author/speaker Tim Wise.)
> We've chosen this 60-minute film because -- while always topical, 
> unfortunately -- this subject seems especially appropriate in light of 
> tragic events that have occurred in our area over the past several 
> months.
> Eye-opening for whites. Reinforcing for persons of color. After-film 
> discussion and refreshments included. FREE and open to the public.
>  -Jenifer
> *"On White Privilege" *
>
> For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying 
> audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take 
> on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture he 
> offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America.
> Overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise 
> provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the 
> damage it does -- not only to people of color, but to white people as 
> well. This is an ideal introduction to the social construction of 
> racial identities, and a critical new tool for exploring the often 
> invoked - but seldom explained - concept of white privilege.
>
>
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