Into an American Uprising: White Accountability

<p>One thing feels different about the current protests we are seeing following the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery: the composition of the crowds.</p><p>In some parts of the country, white Americans are showing up. They are protesting, taking the knee, and flooding social media. There seems to be a renewed call for white accountability. But is posting and protesting enough? And will this energy last?</p><p>Trymaine Lee talks to Tim Wise, an anti-racist essayist, author and educator, about what white people can do to dismantle the systems of inequality in this country.</p><p>For a transcript, please visit <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/intoamerica" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/intoamerica</a>.</p><p><strong>Tim Wise’s Recommended Reads: </strong></p><ul><li><em>Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America</em>, Ibram X. Kendi </li><li><em>How to be an Antiracist</em>, Ibram X. Kendi </li><li><em>White Rage</em>, Carol Anderson </li><li><em>The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985, </em>James Baldwin </li><li><em>Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy</em>, Maggie Anderson </li><li><em>Raising White Kids</em>, Jennifer Harvey </li><li><em>White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism</em>, Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva <em> </em> </li><li><em>Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster</em>, Michael Eric Dyson </li></ul><p><br /></p>