13 Facts About Tim Wise

Timothy Jacob Wise was born on October 4,1968 and is an American activist and writer on the topic of race.

Tim Wise is a consultant who provides anti-racism lectures to institutions.

Tim Wise has said that when he was about 12 years old his synagogue was attacked by white supremacists.

Tim Wise attended public schools in Nashville, graduating from Hillsboro High School in 1986.

Tim Wise has a BA from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Tim Wise majored in Political Science and minored in Latin American Studies.

Tim Wise began initially as a youth coordinator, and then associate director, of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the largest of the various organizations founded for the purpose of defeating political candidate David Duke when Duke ran for US Senate in 1990 and Governor of Louisiana in 1991.

Later in the 1990s, Tim Wise began lecturing around the country on the issues of racism, criticizing white privilege, and defending affirmative action.

From 1999 to 2003, Tim Wise was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute.

Tim Wise argues that racism in the United States is institutionalized due to past overt racism along with current-day discrimination.

Tim Wise starred in a 2013 documentary entitled White Like Me, based on the book by Tim Wise of the same name.

Tim Wise considers himself Jewish by heritage and ethnicity, but does not practice Judaism as a religion.

Tim Wise is a critic of Israel, and philosophically opposed to Zionism, which he views as not only oppressive to non-Jews in Palestine, but detrimental to Jews as well, and counter to Jewish values.