How to Teach About Racism, Without Guilt or Shame

It’s easy, but conservatives won’t support doing it — for an obvious and disturbing reason

Tim Wise
An Injustice!
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6 min readAug 6, 2021

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Shame is powerful and debilitating — perhaps the most destructive of human emotions. Worse than fear, which we can overcome given enough time, shame can paralyze.

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Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)