Speak Out with Tim Wise
61 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 313 ratingsSpeak Out with Tim Wise is an informative and entertaining podcast aimed at promoting multiracial democracy and justice in dangerous times. The show features the biting, factual, and humorous commentary of its host, alongside dialogue with some of the nation's leading scholars, artists and activists, as well as grassroots community leaders whose voices are often ignored in the dominant media.
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Episode 11 - Activist/Actor Matt McGorry (How to Get Away With Murder) on Fighting Racism and Misogyny in Hollywood and America
November 28, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBAlthough Matt McGorry is best known for his role as Asher Millstone on ABC's How to Get Away With Murder, he is also increasingly known for speaking out on issues of sexism, racism and white male allyship in the struggles against both. With reports of widespread male sexual predation emerging from Hollywood (and the world of politics), Matt's take on these subjects, both in and outside the entertainment industry, is especially timely. On this episode we discuss misogyny and structura...
Episode 10 - Frances Lee on Social Justice Activism, Call-Out Culture and the Pitfalls of Progressive Proselytizing
November 21, 2017 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBFighting for a better world in a society beset by multiple injustices can be incredibly exciting and rewarding — and it’s obviously necessary. But can it also sometimes bring out the worst in people? Like a toxic quest for ideological purity? Or an overly judgmental tendency to call people out in divisive and dogmatic ways over even relatively small errors in judgment? In recent essays, “Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice,” and “Why I’m Starting to Fear My Fellow Soci...
Episode 9 - Meghan Linsey on Taking a Knee for Justice, Anti-Racist Solidarity and Progressive Country Music
November 14, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBThis September, singer/songwriter Meghan Linsey, the 2015 runner-up on "The Voice" took a knee as she sang the final note of the national anthem before the Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks game in Nashville. Meghan and her boyfriend and guitar player, Tyler Cain, joined players across the NFL that day in this form of protest, in response to Donald Trump criticizing football players for speaking out against police brutality and racial injustice. On this episode, I'll speak with M...
Episode 8 - Spare the Kids: Dr. Stacey Patton on Race, Corporal Punishment and Why Whuppins Won't Save Black America
November 07, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBPerhaps you’ve heard it said before: “I got spanked as a kid and I turned out alright!,” or “If I don’t whoop you, the police will do far worse” as rationales for corporal punishment, in general, and especially within the black community (and white working class communities). But while the people who say these things may mean well, what damage does spanking children actually do? My guest this week is professor, author, and scholar Dr. Stacey Patton of Morgan State University. Her wor...
Dangerous Knowledge: Dr. Curtis Acosta Discusses the Assault on Mexican American Studies in Tucson
October 31, 2017 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBImagine a high school program whose students are 5 times more likely than their counterparts to go to college, and only 1/20th as likely to drop out. Now imagine lawmakers banning that program and attacking its leaders as “un-American.” As Dr. Curtis Acosta explains on this week’s Speak Out With Tim Wise, that’s what happened when Arizona eliminated Tucson’s Mexican American Studies Program. But now a federal court has ruled the ban unconstitutional, giving new hope to progressive an...
Episode 6 - Teaching Black Students in the Crosshairs of Injustice: A Conversation with St. Louis Teacher Erika Whitfield
October 24, 2017 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBIn this episode, I talk with Erika Whitfield, a 7th grade teacher in St Louis, whose recent Washington Post article about her students’ reaction to police misconduct (and the acquittal of yet another white officer in the killing of yet another black man), speaks to the way even 12 year old black kids have come to expect disappointment from the justice system. We discuss what this means, and how she as a teacher helps inspire their learning and optimism despite a system that they alre...
Equity, Justice and the White Church (Rob W. Lee and John Pavlovitz)
October 17, 2017 00:00 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBWhat does one do when their church no longer wants them as a pastor? When speaking out against white supremacy, on behalf of black lives, and in solidarity with LGBTQ liberation, ultimately costs them their jobs? Does one abandon the church altogether or try and fight for a progressive Christianity instead? My guests this week have answered the questions clearly, and in favor of the latter option. Rob W. Lee -- a descendant of Robert E. Lee -- faced pushback from parishioners in his ...
Episode 4: Cephus (Uncle Bobby) Johnson and Nissa Tzun (Families United 4 Justice)
October 10, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBIn this episode, I'll be speaking to Cephus ("Uncle Bobby") Johnson -- the uncle of Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by a transit officer in Oakland in 2009 -- as well as Nissa Tzun of Families United 4 Justice. We'll discuss the ways in which families are affected by police violence, but so often do without the support and services of the community when their loved ones are killed. The sympathy that so often attaches to the victims of criminal violence is rarely as forthcoming f...
Episode 1 : Filmmaker Qasim Basir
September 30, 2017 00:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBHow does it feel to be a problem? It’s a question sociologist W.E.B DuBois asked over a century ago in The Souls of Black Folks, and which my guest this week also addresses, regarding both blackness and his identity as a Muslim in post 9-11 America. On this episode, I chat with writer/director Qasim Basir about his award-winning films Mooz-lum and Destined. We discuss the beauty (and the horror) of faith, the power of personal choices in the face of systemic injustice, and the import...
Episode 3: Activist and Educator Tia Oso
September 30, 2017 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBThere’s an old saying: “You gotta dance with the one that brought ya.” But as my guest Tia Oso explains in this week’s episode, too often Democrats and white liberals fail to acknowledge the centrality of folks of color – and especially black women – to any truly progressive political coalition. Only by amplifying and listening to the voices, agendas and ideas of the most marginalized, can progressives hope to build lasting and effective movements for social change.
Episode 2: Former Skinhead Christian Picciolini
September 30, 2017 00:00 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBFor those who wonder why people join hate groups, much like those who gathered recently for the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, my guest on this episode knows the answers all too well. Christian Picciolini was in one of America’s first Nazi skinhead crews and was a committed white supremacist for years. Now he helps racists leave hate behind and works to inoculate a new generation of young people from the poison of prejudice, and he’s got some ideas about how to respond t...